If you really want to get mad

[rwp2101]

It's outrageous. In my business we do something with any data from which we want to draw conclusions... it's called sanity checking, and we all know that this data is insane!

One way to combat this is with money to fund the same types of studies and get the real data but then well just find ourselves with each side arguing that their figures are the correct ones.

That cost would be large, but if we had the data and methodology used to arrive at these estimates we might be able get a stats masters student at Rutgers or some other school to take up a critical assessment of the methodology used as part of a thesis.