Obama's new chart!

[phynngrrl_23]

I still support Barack Obama, but what the hell does this chart mean?  I don't think it means what his website is claiming it does. They aren't using the appropriate statistics, dammit.

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[doc_lemming]

It looks pretty, but without knowing what kind of job they're referring to, it's hard to say. Are these only full-time jobs? More than thirty hours a week? What constitutes a loss? Do seasonal layoffs count? What about other layoffs? Do they say how things are defined...anywhere?

[phynngrrl_23]

Of course they don't give any explanations-- politicians and pundits pretend to be ignorant of how statistics should be properly used. :(

I got the image from barackobama.com where they are encouraging people to use this graph as their avatar for twitter and facebook.