Bush: "I'm not a statistician"

[NV1962]

Remember the report of the WH Coucil of Economic Advisors, which said -- among other things -- that exporting jobs overseas is a good thing? Well, it also predicted the creation of 2.6 million jobs by the end of this year. Now it turns out even Bush himself doesn't believe it...

Article here:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/18/elec04.prez.bush.jobs.ap/index.html


White House downplays job predictions

WASHINGTON (AP) --The White House backed away Wednesday from its own prediction that the economy will add 2.6 million new jobs before the end of this year, saying the forecast was the work of number-crunchers and that President Bush was not a statistician.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan, asked repeatedly about the forecast, declined to embrace the prediction which was contained in the annual economic report of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

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[madmax]

1. He's not a President, either n/t

[BootinUp]

4. hahahahha -eom-

[xultar]

2. "I'm not a statistician" (can u count?) THANK GOD n/t

[BootinUp]

3. Maybe he won't be hard to beat

I mean lately they are just fucking incompetent.

[lebkuchen]

5. Thanks to Bush, the only true democracy in the US is The Brady Bunch

Meanwhile, the WH has become Bush's personal "Fantasy Island," knee-deep in drunks and drug addicts.

[AverageJoe]

6. Uhm, shouldn't an Ivy Leage-trained MBA

be well trained in statistics? Just asking....

[salinen]

7. Good point Joe

He knew that his Sec. of Treasury wasn't right, that takes economic insight.

[Tim4319]

8. Especially since

he has ran a corporation before. Also, owned a major league baseball team. He had to have had an accountant to handle all of those salaries. But, since we are talking about a whole country, I guess the rules have changed.

[MissMillie]

10. You'd think so

But the MBA program here at Harvard has been drifting away from qualitative analysis for some time now.

[mhr]

23. Business Statistics Is One Of The Core Courses In All MBA Programs

There is no excuse for *,.

[MissMillie]

9. We knew he wasn't a statistician

Funny, that didn't stop him from making the claims though, did it?


http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/02/18/white_house_retreats_on_predictions_of_new_jobs_this_year_1077123107/

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Not a statistician -- yet * has an MBA?!

n/t

[Brotherjohn]

12. Why not? He writes off the entire Iraq War by saying, basically...

... "I'm not an intelligence analyst."

Once again, it's somebody else's fault for providing him with bad info.

That's leadership for you!

[dennis4868]

13. The WH also....

sais that Bush is not a fact checker as well.....hahaha...it would be funny if the world was not in such a sad state of affairs!

[Brotherjohn]

14. He admittedly doesn't even read the paper!

[Stuckinthebush]

15. Well I am, and the data tell me....

That W is an idiot.

I'm looking at very strong Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient that points in that direction. See below:

        Bush   Idiot
Bush    1.0   .999
Idiot   .999   1.0

[Lisa]

16. plus he wouldn't have passed any test for normality ...

I'm guessing the only "Smirnov" he knows comes in a bottle.

[Stuckinthebush]

17. Ahhhh, Lisa...

I love the way you think!

[Lisa]

21. heh, heh ...

Anyone who can work "Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient" into a political conversation is fine by me!

[samsingh]

18. bush is not a president either.

[boobooday]

19. Nor is he fully conscious

I am a semi-conscious, non-statistician with a limited capacity for processing. Please be patient.

Thanks,
W

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[priller]

20. Mind-boggling exchange from Scotty

"We are interested in reality," McClellan said

BWH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

He said the annual economic report was based on data from about three months ago. Since then, Bush has said that things are improving.

So.....they backed off on the big jobs prediction because things are improving? So the better the economy gets, the fewer the jobs?

So if jobs tank, then we know the economy is really taking off?

And the more attacks we have in Iraq, we know we're really winning?

[Andromeda]

22. You got it...

:crazy: