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Melkino

I hated Peter Pan before it was cool

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12/10/2011 10:24 PM

GreatRedSpirit

"Campaign promises are—by long democratic tradition—the least binding form of human commitment...."

5278

12/15/2011 04:11 AM

GreatRedSpirit

"Campaign promises are—by long democratic tradition—the least binding form of human commitment...."

5278

12/17/2011 04:15 AM

LockeZ

The Z is for Znderson; RMN's resident antagonator

1687

12/17/2011 07:35 AM

I must be kinda slow because I don't see anything strange or funny in the unemployment rate one. Is there a blooper there somewhere?

GreatRedSpirit

"Campaign promises are—by long democratic tradition—the least binding form of human commitment...."

5278

12/17/2011 08:33 AM

Funny how 8.6% in their graph is equal to 9.0% and higher than their 8.8%.

Funny in the "Laugh and pull out the vodka and keep drinking until the pain stops" kind of way.

Cozzer

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12/17/2011 10:30 AM

author=LockeZ
I must be kinda slow because I don't see anything strange or funny in the unemployment rate one. Is there a blooper there somewhere?

"Have you seen the unemployment rate? It was 8.8, but Obama made it grow into 8.6! THAT'S WAY HIGHER!"
(Still, the rest of the graph seems alright, so they probably got the number wrong and it was supposed to be 9.0)

GreatRedSpirit

"Campaign promises are—by long democratic tradition—the least binding form of human commitment...."

5278

12/18/2011 04:09 AM

Uh, no.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/story/2011-12-02/unemployment-rate-november/51577788/1
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-unemployment-rate-falls-to-86percent-in-nov-120k-jobs-added/2011/12/02/gIQAFKZeKO_story.html

Bad graphs like that is common in propaganda. The numbers will check out and based on reputable sources but the analysis will always be off. The backpedal if called out on is "Oops our bad!" (see Obama as Romney and 22% > 23%) without repercussion but people who just glance over it without checking the numbers in their head will be bought over or influenced by it towards the propaganda's bias.

Yellow Magic

I'm the Dawg, so that's what you call me. Or maybe His Dawgness, or Dawger, or El Dawgerino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

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01/13/2012 12:24 PM

DBAce9Aura

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01/14/2012 12:24 AM

LockeZ

The Z is for Znderson; RMN's resident antagonator

1687

01/14/2012 08:21 AM

author=Cozzer
author=LockeZ
I must be kinda slow because I don't see anything strange or funny in the unemployment rate one. Is there a blooper there somewhere?
"Have you seen the unemployment rate? It was 8.8, but Obama made it grow into 8.6! THAT'S WAY HIGHER!"
(Still, the rest of the graph seems alright, so they probably got the number wrong and it was supposed to be 9.0)

At the time, November wasn't over yet, so I assumed that because the numbers weren't finalized they didn't want to let them skew the graph, but they still posted the number-to-date for the curious. This is likely a feature of whatever graphing software they use. It is not necessarily an incorrect way of presenting the data, though it's slightly disconcerting for a split second until you realize why it's drawn that way.

Or maybe it really was just a typo. I dunno.

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