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How accurate is this DUmbass poll?
« on: October 26, 2011, 07:48:46 AM »
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canetoad  (1000+ posts)        Wed Oct-26-11 09:08 AM
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Poll question: Employed or not
 There have been a few polls about the demographic of DUers. We are mostly between the ages of 30 and 65. We are self-identified lefties. We are evenly divided on the death penalty and guns.

What is the DU employment profile?
Poll result (48 votes) 
Executive Officer  (0 votes, 0%) Vote
Self Employed  (6 votes, 13%) Vote
Salaried/permanent employee  (23 votes, 48%) Vote
Casual/Part time employee  (5 votes, 10%) Vote
Unemployed  (9 votes, 19%) Vote
Pension  (5 votes, 10%)


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2186148

61% claim to be (self-)employed

That means 39% un/under-employed or retired

Would DUmbasses be more likely to claim unemployment for street cred or claim employment to as not to look like the slackers they are?
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Re: How accurate is this DUmbass poll?
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2011, 08:20:04 AM »
Remember, DUmmies lie; all the time, DUmmies lie.

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Executive Officer  (0 votes, 0%)
Self Employed  (6 votes, 13%)
Salaried/permanent employee  (23 votes, 48%)
Casual/Part time employee  (5 votes, 10%)
Unemployed  (9 votes, 19%)
Pension  (5 votes, 10%)

Of course, none of them are in upper-level management or big businessmen.

"Self-employed" would include those self-employed in selling drugs, and so that's probably close to accurate.

"Salaried/permanent employee"--no way it's nearly half of them.

"Casual/Part-time employee"--a very murky area; many of those are probably working illicitly under the table to augment welfare and social-security disability benefits.

"Unemployed"--it's got to be a lot more than 19%, given that that's almost the unemployment rate of decent and civilized people in this 0bamaconomy, and of course the primitives have fewer skills, and less of a sense of responsibility, than decent and civilized people.

"Pension"--if that applies to only retirement pensions, it's probably understated.

Now, there's one category missing here, that of "riding first-class on the social security disability gravy train," which is surely at least a third of Skins's island.
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Re: How accurate is this DUmbass poll?
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2011, 08:26:47 AM »
It could be accurate, if you consider welfare as a permanent career choice where the only job duty is voting democrat.
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Re: How accurate is this DUmbass poll?
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2011, 08:27:13 AM »
It looks like they're lumping hourly employees in with "permanent" because I don't see a spot for it otherwise. 
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Re: How accurate is this DUmbass poll?
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2011, 09:11:19 AM »
In line with what Frank said, relying on their own characterizations of their status is totally fruitless.  Are the rummage sale pillager and the cut-and-paste 'Cartoonist' self-employed, under-employed, or permanent employees as they see it from their own warped points of view?   
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Re: How accurate is this DUmbass poll?
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2011, 09:18:09 AM »
"Salaried/permanent employee" = government worker so it is semi-believable.
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Re: How accurate is this DUmbass poll?
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2011, 10:27:29 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on October 26, 2011, 08:20:04 AM
Remember, DUmmies lie; all the time, DUmmies lie.

"Self-employed" would include those self-employed in selling drugs, and so that's probably close to accurate.

"Casual/Part-time employee"--a very murky area; many of those are probably working illicitly under the table to augment welfare and social-security disability benefits.

I was about to comment that running one's own business is essentially the opposite of DUmmy-hood, but seeing your explanation I have to concede your point

I do think that the two options above could be collapsed into a single "quiet undeclared earnings alongside scrounging off the tax-payers".
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