"Gary and Terresa, thanks! Gary, I found your comment in my spam folder... :-( Shelby, I still wouldn't give the Wall Street Journal a pass. <ol> <li>They bungled an order of magnitude in their lead sentence. If anything needed fact checking, it was that first number.</li> <li>Listing BLS as the data's source doesn't cut it. They should have listed the exact series they used for the data. Did they use seasonally adjusted data? How did they eliminate census employees from the data? They don't say and I can't tell.</li> <li>They also should have provide the data they used, including calculations, in spreadsheet form.</li> </ol> I did both of the latter two. The graphs from BLS show the series used (I just did screen captures from the BLS site and they include the series) and I link the spreadsheet I used to calculate the percentages. Certainly a major publication could, and should, have done at least as much. After all, this is electronic publishing with no practical limits on space...."
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