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Selective Data: State by State Unemployment

Sometimes grouping data differently is for spin; other times it is to illustrate a point better. It depends on what question you are trying to answer. If you want to know the trend of national unemployment, the national aggregate data is appropriate. If you want to know why unemployment rates differ among states, then ranking states by unemployment rate would be appropriate. Develop the habit of rating the appropriateness of data that people throw at you.