Their only mistake was failing to recognize how unreliable Committee Reports are — not only as a genuine indicator of congressional intent but as a safe predictor of judicial construction.
Mentalizing processes, in contrast, would be a more genuine indicator of common ground use.
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Other examples range from the development of "genuine progress indicators", such as the Gross National Happiness index in Bhutan or the New Economics Foundation's Happiness Index, to the Voluntary Simplicity Movement in the US and the Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture in India.
These economic factors, which affect access to affordable housing and health care and are reflected in both Mr. Miringoff's social index and the genuine progress indicator, may help account for some of the symptoms of moral decline noted by Mr. Bennett: increases in crime, alcohol-related deaths, drug use and out-of-wedlock births.
In the US some states measure the genuine progress indicator, alongside gross state product.
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A specific measure discussed at the conference immediately relevant to the business world is the genuine progress indicator (GPI).
Meanwhile, a measure like the genuine progress indicator put out by Redefining Progress tries to include things like time spent taking care of children and doing household work, which are not counted in the G.N.P., and subtracts other items like legal and medical bills, commuting time and money spent on locks and house alarms.
Later, it was crowned the best year ever: in 2013, in an economic survey that analysed 17 countries from 1950 to the present day, 1976 was judged the year the UK reached its "genuine progress indicator", a measure considered more accurate than GDP.
Read on to find out what GDP fails to reveal about a country's economic prosperity and how the genuine progress indicator works to make up this gap.
