Apparently, WalMart Watch just can't help but use numbers in a misleading way:
Meanwhile, Chinese workers are getting paid on average 17 cents per hour.Note that the link is in the original. Following it leads to a document that contains a table with a source statement. I found and read the source, and it doesn't support 17 cent claim.
I added in the comments:
That 17 cent an hour figure is NOT AN AVERAGE.
It is the figure from ONE factory of bobblehead dolls, in which, according to a summary prepared by your own labor-allied source, (the writers of the Toys of Misery 2004 report) "Wages are as low as 16.5 cents an hour and just $16.75 for a seven-day, over-100-hour work week."
Please be honest with the data, and please be honest with your readers. Start by admitting that you misrepresented the data from your sources, and then take down the faulty "average" right now.
Posted by Kevin on April, 25 2005 at 04:11 PM
