Thursday, August 20, 2009

Sometimes Exactitude Is Meaningless

New jobless claims rise unexpectedly to 576K - Yahoo! News:

"The number of people remaining on the benefit rolls dropped by 2,000 to 6.24 million."

With rounding, the "6.24 million" figure could range from 6,244,000 to 6,235,000 - of course rounded to the nearest thousand. I wonder whether reporting the 2,000 drop was an editiorial decision or oversight.

Seems insignificant with the rounding or too exact to be true.

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