Twister Frost
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TSR said:Twister Frost said:Referring to the article, I'd say word choice speaks volumes: "handful of reports," and "incremental improvement" placed in parallelism with "two strong jobs numbers."
Incremental--"a small positive or negative change in the value of a mathematical variable or function" is equal to "thriving, developing well, and likely to continue so"
Handful--a small amount or number of people or things
Smoke and mirrors and twisting and twining numbers---
Well Twister you be pessimistic if you like, thats your prerogative. But with the word incremental you leave out "improvement" which takes the negative out of your posting. Incremental improvement is different than incremental no matter how you slice it. Teach your students to be objective whether it agrees with your views or not. BTW I have always enjoyed your posts.
TSR--I'm sure you read the definition that I used for incremental---it says positive or negative---improvement would be a positive, correct? Redundancy was never my forte, but I may have to start using it in order for my "followeres" to comprehend :lol: The point of the definition had to do with small positive increases equating to strong jobs numbers---obviously lost in translation---I will be more clear in the future! BTW--Objectivity has never been a problem for me, and I do not see that changing in the near future---