Job Reports May Often Be Misjudged

A great article in the NYT’s “Upshot” section with cool graphs reports that the monthly job numbers, and other economic indicators from the government and elsewhere, may be misleading due to “statistical noise”, i.e., uncontrolled for margins of error, bad sampling, etc.

An important read when you think of how these indicators affect Wall Street, your employer’s decisions at work, or when to buy a house.

Read Here.

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