Stories about quiet quitting and now labor hoarding are a good reminder that the plural of data is not anecdotes. It’s still data.
And data is the one thing missing from most of these articles.
The amount of play a particular story gets in the media is no indicator of how important the story actually is or how common the event.
For example, the media focuses on extremely rare crimes like an upper class white woman kidnapped and murdered by a strange black man in a van. They ignore the stunningly common reality that most people are killed by someone they know.
Quiet quitting and labor hoarding seem more like the black man in the van rather than the abusive husband
Stories about quiet quitting and now labor hoarding are a good reminder that the plural of data is not anecdotes. It’s still data.
And data is the one thing missing from most of these articles.
The amount of play a particular story gets in the media is no indicator of how important the story actually is or how common the event.
For example, the media focuses on extremely rare crimes like an upper class white woman kidnapped and murdered by a strange black man in a van. They ignore the stunningly common reality that most people are killed by someone they know.
Quiet quitting and labor hoarding seem more like the black man in the van rather than the abusive husband