Unemployment jumps to 9.8%

[sirs]

d'oh       

[Xavier_Onassis]

What they have in common is that one is from the UPI and the rest are all basically rewrites.

The idea of a headline is to get the reader to read the article. 0.2% of any number is not a "jump".

[Amianthus]

Oh, come off it.
It you made $50,000 last year and $50,100 this year, would that be a "jump " in pay?
 
.2% is not a jump. It makes no difference who is responsible.

The change in numbers is larger than you're implying. 50,000 -> 50,100 would be equivalent to a change in unemployment of 9.6% -> 9.619%. A similar change from 9.6 -> 9.8 would be 50,000 -> 51,042. I would consider $1,042 to be a "jump" in pay.

[sirs]

0.2% of any number is not a "jump".

Just try telling a Cardiologist that sometime, when their patient's Troponin goes up a mere .2%

[BT]

If you weighed 180 before thanksgiving and you gained .2% after thanksgiving how much weight did you gain?

[R.R.]

What they have in common is that one is from the UPI and the rest are all basically rewrites.

The idea of a headline is to get the reader to read the article. 0.2% of any number is not a "jump".

I read some of the articles and none of those were attributed to the UPI. Even still those headlines made it past the editors' desks, and the people who decide what news we get say it was a jump in unemployment. This includes your revered NPR.

[Amianthus]

If you weighed 180 before thanksgiving and you gained .2% after thanksgiving how much weight did you gain?

Not much.

However, 9.6% -> 9.8% is more than a 0.2% gain. It is a gain of nearly 2.1%.

Since percentages represent ratios rather than regular numbers, math on them becomes trickier.

[Amianthus]

However, 9.6% -> 9.8% is more than a 0.2% gain. It is a gain of nearly 2.1%.

To prove this, go back to the original numbers - the previous period's unemployment was under 14.8 million. The current period was just over 15.1 million (an increase of around 0.35 million).

To calculate the percent increase, take the gain times 100, divide by the base number, and you have your percent increase.

(0.35 x 100) / 14.8 = ~2.3 (you get closer to 2.1 if you use the full numbers rather than rounding).

[BT]

So the 180 lb man would have gained 3.78 lbs over thanksgiving?

[Amianthus]

So the 180 lb man would have gained 3.78 lbs over thanksgiving?

Yeah, about that. Enough of a one day weight gain that it would have required me to call my cardiologist had it happened to me.

(The standing orders from my cardiologist is to report a weight gain of 3 or more pounds in one day or 5 or more pounds in a week, so they can adjust my meds.)

[BT]

You have a strict cardiologist.

I would have just cut back on my metformin for a day or two so i could take a decent crap.

Better living through chemistry dontcha know.

[kimba1]

uhm
That looks normal to me.

I`m pretty sure i passes 4lbs. this turkeyday. despite salmon is supposed to be good for you. i had 4 servings with alot of mashed potato and banana cream pie(lost count how many slices).
not to mention all the stuff I nibbled on before dinner.
for got to mention it was salmon belly which is the fattiest part of the fish.