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The jobs data revisions that cost a US government statistician her job
Reuters ^ | August 4, 202511:52 AM CDT | Reuters

Posted on 08/04/2025 10:14:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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The revisions to previous estimates of the size of U.S. payrolls gains for May and June that prompted President Donald Trump to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday were by any measure extraordinarily large.

Good enough for government work.

1 posted on 08/04/2025 10:14:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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2 posted on 08/04/2025 10:16:34 AM PDT by CDR Kerchner ( retired military officer, natural law, Vattel, presidential, eligibility, natural born Citizen )
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At least we won’t need any rate cuts.


3 posted on 08/04/2025 10:17:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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She pulled the same stunt under Biden..before the election she said that Biden had created millions of jobs, after the election she said “Oopsie, I made a boo boo it was actually a lot less so Im revising it down”


4 posted on 08/04/2025 10:20:08 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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As I said before, either she was suffering from TDS or grossly incompetent. Estimation has upper and lower bound. Those numbers are way outside the bounds.
They may use wrong model (that give disproportionate weights), or problematic sample design.


5 posted on 08/04/2025 10:20:48 AM PDT by paudio (MATH: 45<47)
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Her incompetence cost her the job.


6 posted on 08/04/2025 10:20:57 AM PDT by JayGalt (For America!)
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Did I miss the Reuters liberal bias? This article was mostly factual, as far as I could tell.


7 posted on 08/04/2025 10:23:53 AM PDT by oldplayer
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When is Trump going to bomb the IMF and the World Bank for putting us at #2 now?

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8 posted on 08/04/2025 10:23:57 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)


9 posted on 08/04/2025 10:26:05 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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She pulled the same stunt under Biden..before the election she said that Biden had created millions of jobs, after the election she said “Oopsie, I made a boo boo it was actually a lot less so Im revising it down”

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I think this is incorrect. The revisions of 800K lower noted by Trump for the election were made in September, not November. So lower jobs were reported pre election, not post.


10 posted on 08/04/2025 10:28:23 AM PDT by Owen
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Maybe they should give up on the estimate game and just publish the factual data that they actually have.


11 posted on 08/04/2025 10:38:04 AM PDT by fruser1
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It’s child’s play to rig statistics, hence the saying- there are lies, damn lies and statistics. It’s as fraudulent as beginning an argument with “the experts agree that blah blah blah”. Who are these alleged experts who are never identified, nor are the studies they rely on?


12 posted on 08/04/2025 10:39:53 AM PDT by Spok (Lies and stupidity require an explanation; the truth doesn’t.)
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Monthly BLS report is based on a voluntary survey! Only 60% of businesses even bother to respond, and who knows how accurate the data is for those who do. Typical government fiasco..


13 posted on 08/04/2025 10:41:58 AM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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Maybe they should give up on the estimate game and just publish the factual data that they actually have.

What fun would that be?


14 posted on 08/04/2025 10:49:04 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: CDR Kerchner

I’m delighted to see that Orly Taitz’s work re Obama is still ongoing. I want to see everything finally come out. I hope enough crucial evidence remains. No one is above the law.


15 posted on 08/04/2025 10:55:22 AM PDT by clashfan (With God as our defender)
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Her new gig will be quality control for an airline, signing off that the planes are sort of, in a way, close to being safe to fly.


16 posted on 08/04/2025 11:05:05 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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I read the revision and thought they had transposed the numbers of jobs created vs the reductions. It should be impossible to make such a mistake or change with only a one paragraph lame explanation.

Integrity? Where?


17 posted on 08/04/2025 11:19:24 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Spok

It’s child’s play to rig statistics, hence the saying- there are lies, damn lies and statistics.

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There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth.
— Phsstpok, FR

Don’t know if he’s still around


18 posted on 08/04/2025 11:51:33 AM PDT by dagunk
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Do you think an insurance company would put up with the incompetence that she demonstrated?


19 posted on 08/04/2025 2:00:56 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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Aww. She could learn to code maybe.


20 posted on 08/04/2025 3:28:18 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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