political foo: lies, damned lies...

[alpharaposa]

And statistics

Statistics can say nearly anything you want them to. It all depends on who's arranging the numbers, and what you've decided to measure.

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[xaq.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that first chart is definitely deceptive, especially if you don't take into account things like the fact that, since the population has gone up a fair amount, the number of people having jobs (and thus, having jobs to lose) has also gone up.


This is, ironically, one of the major life lessons I took from the Bible (Mark 12:38-44)...all in all, it's a game of percentages.