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Originally Posted by Relentless
When you know 100% of the national population you can speak with authority about the employment of the population. Since you likely know less than .000001% of the population, you 'not knowing people who are unemployed' is authoritative only when discussing .000001% of the population, which is a statistically meaningless segment of society for determining national employment data.
In webmaster terms that would be like saying 'I know a few people who have been to that site, so it must be one of the highest traffic sites in the world.'  |
I'm just talking about the law of average. If twenty percent of the people are unemployed, that's 1 in 5 people. I know hundreds of people here in town and not one of them is unemployed. Granted, I would like to think that my friends are bit higher up the ladder than the bottom of the barrel, but still, odds say that I should know a few people who are out of work and looking. I don't.
Come to think of it, the only person I knew who was unemployed in the past four years was my wife...