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James Lankford: “So the shift is what is interesting, I guess. If it is a reliable model and 3 years later you have to adjust it 50…”

On the recordJuly 15, 2015
So the shift is what is interesting, I guess. If it is a reliable model and 3 years later you have to adjust it 50 percent, it causes all of us to raise our hand and say, Why is that a reliable model if you had to change it 3 years later by 50 percent when you are looking at modeling that may go out over the next hundred years.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

Editor's note · Context

Lankford questions the reliability of a model that changed significantly in a short period.

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