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Re: Data Manipulation



>then consider what BLS hath wrought. Their GDP revisions for 2005's
1Q border on the absurd. In order to crank GDP from its disappointing
initial reading of 3.1% to the more vigorous final 3.8%, the BLS had
to make some sketchy adjustments. <

the BLS doesn't calculate the GDP; the BEA does, though BLS
contributes some of the data.




-- 
Jim Devine
"Blessed are the pizza-makers."  [explanation: I suggested this slogan
to a local pizza parlor. They posted in on their sign. They didn't
know that this was a blow against the local Hope Chapel, which posts
religious slogans, often fundamentalist ones.]



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