@delong
> As my daughter says: If you do not like what a statistic says, try taking a derivative or an integral, and then you can refer to that and so pretend it says something else.
This is brilliant. I am often bothered by apparently shoddy statistics given in articles that do things like confusing the debt and the deficit or that mix together price level, inflation rate, and change in inflation rate. This explains why. Thanks to you (and your daughter).