Make line look good.

  • Parysian [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Top graph: how many jobs we lose/gain every day

    Bottom graph: how many jobs there are total

    When top line is at 0, it means no jobs gained or lost, bottom line holds steady

    When top line is negative, we're losing jobs, bottom line go down

    When top line is positive, we're gaining jobs, bottom line go up

    So if you want to pretend we fixed everything, even though we've only partially recovered the lost jobs, show them top graph, and say "Look, line was down, now line is up!" and hope they don't notice what it's actually measuring.