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>>>And yet their theories are put into practice.
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>>What only shows how stable the system is. Even errors in modeling (what results into faulty controler / sensor, see control theory) will not do much to it.
>>We have not seen a real problem yet. (In the sense that the majority of population lost believe in the computer numbers / printed fabric we use to transfer values.)
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>http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-04-18/faq-reinhart-rogoff-and-the-excel-error-that-changed-history
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>This one certainly had me pausing.

Why?

" The UMass economists get all the way up to 2.2 percent by using a counting method that gives more weight to a few countries that experienced long periods of high debt. Reinhart and Rogoff insist that their method is better."

not going into the fray of who doctored worse, but the saying often attributed to Churchill seems to fit