“The gross city product, for one thing, is not some precise state or federal government statistic, but a rough, inexact index of economic activity, a sort of guesstimate built upon multiple other guesstimates.”

“We're quite confident about the first list but the rest are just guesstimates.”

“Well I think in any disaster situation the figures are rubbery and they're guesstimates at best.”

“Existing guesstimates are extracted and extrapolated from hospital and mortuary records, media reports and some military data.”