At 2:17 PM 12/31/96, James Michael Craven wrote:

>These so-called BLS Stats best belong in a Stats Class on how to
>miscategorize, formalize, structure and contrive surveys to yield
>contrived results to support contrived assertions and "axioms" to
>support contrived syllogisms to support contrived policies to support
>some parochial interests and paradigms. There is nothing more to it
>in my opinion.

Hmm, that doesn't seem to be the way Marx used official statistics in
Capital. But I guess you know better.

Doug

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