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Old 01-16-2013, 08:02 AM   #44
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Originally Posted by PatNY View Post
No. The underlying data is not a guess or an estimate (though it could be misinformation). The range reported in the NYTs is an estimate based on incomplete data, some of it hard numbers. I know this is being picky with semantics, but it's an important distinction. It's not just some analyst sitting in his office doing "projections" or "estimates" based on non-specific information, trends, and old sales data.
But it is an analyst reporting information from unnamed sources with no verification.
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