Leigh Meyers wrote:
Now we're on the same wavelength! Yes, they're making that "stuff" up,
or to be more precise, a lot of it, perhaps most of it.
Research is more than reciting numbers... It's also verifying the
validity and veracity OF the numbers, especially when they come from
sources (governments, and the apparatchik) that have a vested interest
in 'blue skies and happy times' under their regime... and typically,
under close examination, or in retrospect, those numbers are fudged.
Michael will no doubt rebuke me for this, so mea culpas in advance.
You really have no idea what you're talking about, and worse, you
don't care. I spend a good bit of my working life studying these
figures - how they're defined and collected, their strengths and
weakness, etc. The people who put them together are honest,
competent, and serious people who are very open about what they do.
You're just belching out a lot of know-nothingism.
Doug
