I think it fits the predictions.
Gene Coyle
On Mar 6, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
is the following story apocryphal?
In the 1960s, economists flew into an African country to advise its government. To the advisers' total surprise the country's later economic performance fit their predictions exactly! It turned out that the government had used the prediction, because it was the "best data available."
-- Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
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