{"id":500,"date":"2008-03-06T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/06\/measurement-matters\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T00:18:00","slug":"measurement-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/06\/measurement-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Measurement Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The graph below shows the different results when using two different measures of joblessness (notice how the use of two different scales on these graphs&#8211;10% and 15%&#8211;visually interrupts a fair comparison).  Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/05\/business\/05leonhardt.html?ex=1205384400&amp;en=90d67006066d85e1&amp;ei=5070&amp;emc=eta1\">New York Times story<\/a> that accompanied this image for a historically-grounded discussion of the problematics and politics of measuring joblessness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/Class-MeasuringJoblessness-seesocimagesfordiscussion.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174787627911584658\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2Class-MeasuringJoblessness-seesocimagesfordiscussion.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The graph below shows the different results when using two different measures of joblessness (notice how the use of two different scales on these graphs&#8211;10% and 15%&#8211;visually interrupts a fair comparison). Visit the New York Times story that accompanied this image for a historically-grounded discussion of the problematics and politics of measuring joblessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,36,274],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-economics","tag-methodsuse-of-data"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}