Worth is measured in aggregate numbers of people helped.
But those kinds of aggregate numbers, while concerning, are also abstract.
It wasn't only about which individual answers worked, but about the aggregate numbers.
Meanwhile, the alternative lenders don't release any aggregate numbers at all.
Although emerging economies have never before looked so healthy, aggregate numbers conceal some horrors.
Undoubtedly many of them do, but whether the aggregate numbers hold water is less certain.
"When you're looking at this large of a survey, the aggregate numbers smooth those things out," Mr. Molony said.
The Ronsvalles also fault these rankings along with Giving USA for presenting gains in aggregate numbers without taking into account increases in population and after-tax income.
The letter reminds commissioners that "it's important that you classify all layoffs correctly, since we will be reporting aggregate numbers to the mayor".
"They are important obviously, but this is a truly massive system and what we put out today are aggregate numbers for that entire system," Mr. Harries said.
"But in aggregate numbers, it's somewhere around 65,000 to 75,000 marines is what we're looking at, if you really are thinking about what are the numbers.
