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Re:U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter,... by bandyaboot on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:12PM (#38028631)
I’m guessing it was an intuited number since the subject was an undefined standard of reasonableness that would be a matter of personal opinion and experience. Since it’s impossible to assign a definitive number to such a thing, most people would assume that that’s not what the writer is attempting to do.
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Re:U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter,... by woobar on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:31PM (#38028878)
I wanted to understand the reasoning behind a comment like this. There are great wiggle words (most, significant amount, etc) that let one pretend they are objective. But the GP went for a very precise number without substantiating it in any way.
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