Yet once a company reports its earnings, they accept the number as an accurate indication of its health.
The subtitle (the title of the original British edition) is the more accurate indication of its contents.
Ballesteros' six-under-par total for the first round gave an accurate indication of just how well he was playing.
That could mean a 14-percentage-point lead is a more accurate indication of Clinton's current position in the race.
The scoreline of 6-3, 6-2 is an accurate indication of how efficiently he dispatched Zielinski.
Don't be alarmed if your meat is still pink in the middle once cooked: colour is not always an accurate indication of doneness.
Granderson said the flags fluttering at the top of the stadium did not always give outfielders an accurate indication of where the balls would go.
A pilot study found that the presence of a combination of 22 VOCs was an accurate indication of lung cancer, and a larger study is now under way.
This gives OfficeDrop a fairly accurate indication of what will probably show up in the report and weeds out troublesome candidates.
The system of farming there is completely different to how we do it in the UK, so it's not really an accurate indication of what's likely to happen".
His conclusions now strike us as predictable, and many have turned for a more accurate indication of Mahler's mental state to the manuscripts of the Tenth, which Alma edited for publication a decade after his death.
