False Claims and Absurdities of Mainstream Media Reports On Initial Unemployment Claims

``How can the SA number be so far off? Simple. The factors are arbitrary. Over the last 10 years, the actual NSA number has been multiplied by factors ranging from .745 to .895. That means that the range of variance for the factor for this week is 20%. That's just absurd. This year the factor applied to this week's actual number was .796.  Below is what it looks like graphically. ''