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...Minnesota club has an advantage, Peddie says, in that "Glimp and his committee have a slight bias for these small town boys. Give 'em one from Long Prairie and they get enthused . . . willing to take a gamble. They add a little bit in their minds to his Board scores...
...instance," Doermann explains, "Glimp takes charge of Minnesota. He has read reports from 10 or 15 interviews, and has talked with two-thirds of them. He has his own size up of the men. He's capable of discounting bias--if he knows an interviewer likes gregarious kids, he'll understand a bad rating...
...years (it is now at a record high of 127.5), the index has conditioned most Americans to believe that the U.S. is gripped by creeping inflation. Last week, in hearings before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, some distinguished economists suggested that the C.P.I, has a "systematic upward bias" that has made inflation more of a bogeyman than the facts warrant...
Artificial Rise. A chief cause of the upward bias, said the University of Chicago's George J. Stigler, presenting a report by economists of the National Bureau of Economic Research, is "the failure of the price indexes to take full account of quality changes, which have on average been quality improvements." By simply reporting that consumers pay more for goods, the C.P.I, fails to take into account that buyers often get better clothes or more complex cars for their money. Many other economists, including Harvard's Seymour Harris, agree that quality improvements may offset many of the higher...
Commissioner of Labor Statistics Ewan Clague, whose department is now working on the C.P.I.'s regular ten-year revision, denies that any "enormous rise" in the index could be caused by a failure to measure quality improvements, but concedes that there may be some upward bias in his much-respected index...