> are there any non-tin-foil hat people that think that the numbers are actually wrong given the published methodologies? No, but the whole point of the poster

> are there any non-tin-foil hat people that think that the numbers are actually wrong given the published methodologies? No, but the whole point of the poster above, and of the article we're commenting on, is that the methodologies themselves are wrong (i.e. that they don't measure what people really care about, they measure something that the government thinks will look better than reality). This is a very common problem in economics: numbers agree very well with the models, but the models themselves are barely applicable to reality.