Your statement is actually addressed in tfa, in the first couple of paragraphs (now, it's in the context of a switch made to the index in 1983, but I think it's

Your statement is actually addressed in tfa, in the first couple of paragraphs (now, it's in the context of a switch made to the index in 1983, but I think it's just as relevant today): >This methodological innovation understandably sets off alarm bells among people who are predisposed to distrust the government.