Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Recovery?

Your one-stop "recovery" visual (thanks to @cobrown ):


I think Joan Baez might have reacted this way:

Now you're telling me
You are recovering
You need another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague
Because you need some of that vagueness now....

Maybe an Obamery?  An apparently permanent five percentage increase in dependency on government handouts?

6 comments:

Brad said...

Would feel less deceptive and more accurate with a y-axis that isn't a case study in how not to lie with statistics.

Anonymous said...

It's fine for a line graph to have axes that don't start at zero. If it were a bar chart then I would agree with you.

Look, the share of adults with jobs fell almost 5 percentage points and hasn't come back, at all. That is pretty clear from the chart.

Chris said...

I'd be interested in seeing this broken out by age group. Are we seeing boomers settling for early retirement and kids locked out due to high unemployment?

Anonymous said...

Chris - Here's the breakdown looking specifically at teens.

OP - Funny, I almost wonder of Tacitus isn't who we should be looking for for a quote...

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