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I've done research around this to satisfy myself I wasn't talking bollocks or my or my peers experiences were bucking a national trend.
Fuck it's sad, yes the papers show that respective governments have tried hard to engage with NEETS, harder than anything I experienced growing up.
What can't be denied is that the affect of my generations poverty is having a snowball affect.
Kids of 1970's kids who grew up in poverty as teenagers have a QUADRUPLED chance of still being in poverty by the time they're 42 which is predicted to continue until someone can find a successful way to stop this viscous circle.
Given the doom and gloom predictions of the affect on the young of a Brexit is sad, really sad.
bluebikerider
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Did it? Really? do you have a link to the discussion of this any where? Could you dissect the report to show this to be true?
I haven't read the report but I'm guessing it used anecdotal evidence. I'd suggest that this was because there was either a) the anecdotes were collected together to form evidence, b) not the measures in place to produce proper statistics, c) there was a big cover up
Anecdotes can be useful to build a hypothesis to test. In a 'x happened to me today, I wonder if it will happens to everyone else?' way, you then go and ask everyone else (or a sample of everyone else) and record who x happened to and who it didn't. You then report those numbers. These are statistics. i.e. If you collect enough anecdotes its becomes evidence and you would summarise this evidence using statistics.
Using anecdotal evidence is pretty much akin to saying 'x happened to me today, therefore x happens to everyone else'.