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Originally Posted by plane
Ok, I went to the DetNews this morning.
Front and center was GM versus Toyota sales numbers.
Looks like even the Detroit news isn't immune from playing adjusted against unadjusted numbers.
Beautiful.
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You know plane - I can see why you would say that - thousands of articles worldwide have/did report - 13.2% as the dsr adjusted percentage. ( mostly on the 1st )
I posted one up here myself from Reuters - which I'm going to have to find and correct -
because it is in fact wrong .... -13.2%
is the industry number on a
non adjusted basis.
The one nobody wants to talk about is that the industry number on a dsr adjusted percentage basis is
-19.87% - which is why there has been this group think to present many numbers on a non adjusted basis - looks better.
There are a few out there mixing it up - by using the larger negative numbers that a dsr percentage gives for everyone - and yes some are using that in regards to GM, Ford, and Chrysler while using non adjusted ie less negative for everyone else.
The Detroit News is, I believe, using non adjusted numbers correctly - on the one article I checked anyway - and if my article posted earlier mislead you - my apologies in advance.
It's getting to the point you have to check even the most basic numbers yourself.
Anyway, I've got to find that Reuters post I used and correct the text.