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To: elmatador who wrote (65810)	8/28/2010 12:10:24 PM
From: Joseph Silent	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 217750

Elmat .... this has to do with some issues you raised on the boom bust thread. For a person (say an honest politician, if you'll forgive the oxymoron :)) to make an informed decision, he/she needs reliable input. Reliable input = reliable raw data + reliable model + c*(special interest influence) where c is some "controllable" constant. Assumptions: 1. c = 0. 2. To begin, we do not care about a reliable model. It is hard to get. As soon as you ask for a model, you will have a dozen models backed by two dozen special interests. My question(s) Say I am interested in answering questions about raw data trends in global resources or factors (oil, copper, grain, temperature ....). 1. What are the important ones for the world? (say top 10-12) 2. Once I know what they are, how to bypass "authorized sources" to get this data. (Such a process could generate an independent verification mechanism, or a source in itself). I've been wondering about this. How to just get at the data? What resources would be needed to establish some minimal framework for data gathering? Is it even reasonable to expect that it can be done for some things? Thanks, /J