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kallebootoday at 12:10 PM1 replyview on HN

Companies lie. Even if companies didn't lie, people within companies lie.


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graemeptoday at 12:54 PM

They also answer might these things quite casually. The response may not come from people who know. Its probably been delegated to someone quite junior.

I once saw a survey question (on what the view was of economic outlook and exchange rates) been bounced to someone junior, who then looked to an external source which based its answer partly on the previous version of the same survey.

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