throttling back

[John K. Taber]

Doug Henwood wrote:
[snip]
> The IMF productivity measures differ wildly from those published by the
> U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Inquiries to both the IMF and the BLS
> about why this is have gone unanswered.

Now *that's* interesting. I get uncomfortable when two different
experts measure the same things and get different results, except
when I read the Journal of Irreproducible Results.

Do you suppose that the amount of error is so great that accurate
figures are not obtainable?

Or, what?