On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 12:54 -0700, Jim Devine wrote: > Doug: > > That too. But I was responding to claims about price indexes being concocted > > in secret. It's a summer Friday; I don't feel up to a full critique of GDP. > > my point is that the biz about "price indices being concocted in > secret" is a distraction from the real issue.
The "secret" *is* the real issue. "concocted" is just framing citizens who want data as conspiracy theorist. You can currently get an awful lot of data from USA government on the web, but you cannot get the quality adjustment from a car to a new car, this doesn't make any sense. > Doug Henwood wrote: > They will happily talk at length about their work; there's nothing > secretive about them. Why aren't they putting their detailed quality data on the web then? They fear an open debate? They feel like spending three hours on the phone per curious citizen is 200x era way to do data publication and good use of taxpayer money? I'm out of *reasonable explanation*. Laurent _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
