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April 14, 2008

Fun with False Precision

From an otherwise-interesting release I received this morning from the increasingly-useful folks at FirstCoverage, an equity markets research firm:

Overall market sentiment improves by 6.21%.

What does that mean? How does anyone claim two digits of precision in their measurement of something as fuzzy as "market sentiment"? Inquiring minds want to know.

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