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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Koligman who wrote (112107)	3/11/2008 11:31:00 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 132070

Looking at your BLS data, how can wage growth be positive EVERY year since 1999, yet the Census bureau numbers clearly show male wages substantially lower in 2006 as compared to 1999??? They measure things in different ways. It shows my point in my last post on this thread. A point you would probably agree with at least in broad terms. There are a lot of different possible data points to consider, different data points that seem very similar on the surface can still show trends in different directions. And the biggest point, none of this data is very solidly and reliably precise, even when you have the best people trying to get it, without any deliberate bias or large degree of non-deliberate bias to distort the results. The figures are presented as if they are all so precise, but even the specific data points are not precise, and also none of them would give a complete picture even if we could count on them being precisely correct.