When I heard about how productivity was up on npr the other day, my first thought is that research and development are probably just on the decrease. And even

When I heard about how productivity was up on npr the other day, my first thought is that research and development are probably just on the decrease. And even if you could determine that R&D are down, you don't know if that just isn't a good development. Maybe a lot of dumb ideas were being developed before. This does point out how much information is lost when you look at things in the aggregate. People talk about public health rather than the health of individuals. Maybe its this sort of thinking that leads to the world of Logan's Run. "see how remarkably healthy our population is? our policies are a success!"