How reliable are GDP estimates?


Not very. The graph depicts UK data - note that the 'latest estimate' is our best estimate but, of course, by no means the true value:

Thanks to Michael Blastland for putting the graph together. Here's his fifth article on the ways in which the media abuse statistics, scroll down the page for links to the other four.



by datacharmer | Thursday, September 04, 2008
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