Typically, when project managers rely on team members to provide status data, they get results that are inconsistent, imprecise, and hard to collate.

通常，当项目经理依靠团队成员所提供的状态数据时，他们得到的结果是不一致、不准确和难以比较的。

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Even by the standards of economic data, they are imprecise, thanks to differences in the measurement of inflation.

ECONOMIST: The economy

Trade groups for meat producers have questioned the link to cardiovascular disease, saying studies that ask people to recall what they ate over long periods are imprecise.

WSJ: New Health Culprit Carnitine Found in Red Meat

Trade groups for meat producers have questioned the link between red meat and cardiovascular disease on the grounds that studies that ask people to recall what they ate over long periods are imprecise.

WSJ: New Health Culprit Carnitine Found in Red Meat