The quote comes from an an invaluable post by Bob Greenstein, the president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which takes a clinical look at Plan B and cites freshly produced figures from the non-partisan Tax Policy Center.
Hedge Fund Research produces figures for 18 different sectors, from "short bias" (funds that make money from falling share prices) to "merger arbitrage" (funds that exploit movements in bidders' and sellers' share prices).
Iraqi officials do not release estimates of their troops killed, although every day they produce figures on civilian deaths and injuries from allied bombing and other military action.
Each item is measured on an 11 cm visual analogue scale, producing figures ranging from 0 to 10. Pain and disability subscale scores are calculated as the mean of the corresponding items on a 0 100 scale, the highest score indicating the most severe pain and disability.
If these USBs sell well, the company said it might produce other figures from well-known performances.
Its account of projective geometry, including the new theory of duality, which allows geometers to produce new figures from old ones, won the prize of the Academy of Sciences in Brussels in 1829.
In one pilot study, it was possible to produce audit figures from one area where there is known to have been local implementation of the research findings.
That is a huge fall against the 81m Google Maps mobile users it had there at its peak in September last year, according to ComScore, a market research company, which produced the figures from regular polls of thousand of users.
Mr. Zucker, who said he has been following the situation closely, produced casualty figures from both military and Arab reports that showed the change since the introduction of plastic bullets.
They were produced using figures from arrays of low-cost microphones placed around urban areas rather than the traffic flow and flight timetable data previously used in the UK.
