After adjusting for inflation, wages are higher than at any point in U.S. history, and after adjusting for age and sex, the percentage of the population that is employed is around its peak in U.S. history.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Yeah, the truth is it’s not that hard to find the right boxes to check as metrics that you can find any result you want.

    Which is obviously what they did, they couldn’t even stop it with a 54 age cap (who the fuck retires at 55?) they had to raise the minimum to 25, well after normal college grad age.

    Even without getting into the organization and funding, anyone that actually learned about stats in a real stats class can you tell you it’s being done to generate the results the funders want.

    We really need to start teaching statistical analysis in highschool. I can’t remember the last time I needed something past algebra, but stats comes up all the fucking time, and almost no one really knows the basics.

    It’s not even that complicated, but admittedly I had an amazing professor and took a couple courses.

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      28 days ago

      A more educated populace is the last thing anyone at the top of the ladder wants.

      We’re backsliding to Company Stores, chits, and union workers facing violence for their workplace rights. “Corporate interests” have undone the social contract.