In Reply to: Don't know how they obtain their data but it doesn't stop them from charging $4,500 a copy for the report. posted by cfb on July 3, 2011 at 20:50:56:
...Do you really believe there are accurate figures coming out of China & South-East Asia?
Nothing you linked encouraged me to believe anything in the US is anything but a guess also.
You initially stated the numbers didn’t appear to add up. Maybe because they don’t! :o)
I wouldn’t place much faith in statistics irrespective of how much they sell for.
Remember the GFC?
In the heavily regulated sector of banking & insurance the ratings agencies were charging thousands of dollars for analysis of companies, to the point of giving them ‘AAA’ ratings on the same day they collapsed, and getting it wrong by a magnitude of 1000%.
Accountants & auditors have enough trouble reconciling a single large company let alone a world-wide market segment.
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- The world-wide figures are nothing but a guess … - three_sox 05:16:47 07/04/11 (0)