Why I'm So Tired

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/tired.html

by ilija139 • 15 years ago

32 4 15 years ago

xam• 15 years ago

Old... US population is at 307 million now... but still interesting.

loceng• 15 years ago

Cute. But I would like to see a dynamically updating breakdown of all countries, for comparison, of all this data. Sadly, what governments publish may not be factual.

pan69• 15 years ago

This brings me back to 1997...

daguar• 15 years ago

Ugh. This data is somewhat obnoxiously wrong.

- The federal gov't employs ~2.8 million people, not 29 million [1].

- State and local gov'ts employ ~17 million, half of which are education (a little ~6 million are elementary and secondary) [2].

- Let me also note that the topline figure is about ~150 million jobs [1]. I have no idea where he cuts out the retired and young from.

Very quippy; very tantalizing to ideologues; very empirically inaccurate.

Ugh.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm [2] http://www2.census.gov/govs/apes/10stlus.txt

Why I'm So Tired

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