Monday, December 29, 2008
Some arguments not so easy to win
I have found it very easy of late to settle arguments using the
Internet. Oft times we wonder—How tall is the president?
well a quick search gives 5' 11", argument settled. Other times
the answer comes with much more effort. For example—
What is the industry sector contribution to the US gross national
product? The answers come back too broad to be useful, like:
So trying to dig deeper we find tons of data and few
useable graphs, what is this, do I need to build my own?
Where are the government number crunchers?
Well I find these to start our chart:
GDP (official exchange rate): $13.84 trillion (2007 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 1.2%
industry: 19.8%
services: 79% (2007 est.)
Imports: $1.968 trillion f.o.b. (2007 est.
Exports: $1.148 trillion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Military expenditures: 4.06% of GDP (2005 est.)
So this needs a lot of work-what industries did what part?
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