"The same formula has been used to measure poverty for almost 50 years, and many agree that this official measure is flawed," the Urban Institute wrote in a recent report on poverty.
Democrats would not be bullied into approving a measure they considered flawed, she said.
The problem isn't bad forecasting: China's headline inflation measure is flawed.
The Resolution Foundation think-tank said the Treasury's living standards measure was "flawed" as it includes the incomes of universities and trade unions.
For decades, experts on both sides of the poverty debate have complained that the official government measure is flawed because it doesn't account for measures like benefits from government programs, health care costs or taxes.
In his signing statement, Mr. Schwarzenegger was firm in his opposition to Proposition 19, which would legalize, tax and regulate the use of marijuana for those over 21, calling the measure "deeply flawed".
Even the idea of "sea level" as a fixed measure is somewhat flawed.
But the site-centric measure is also flawed: If you use, say, four different devices — a smartphone, a PC at home, another at work, and a tablet — you will be incorrectly counted as four different users.
One described the measure as "deeply flawed".
