Another major problem with global youth unemployment statistics is the quality of the data itself.

BBC: Global youth unemployment: Making sense of the numbers

Denver-based Quality Education Data prepared statistics used in the SIIA report.

CNN: Most K-12 schools spend less than $5 per student on software

One of the major battles is over the quality of historical data, and whether or not hurricane statistics are being inflated by nonclimatic forces.

FORBES: Bringing Some Empirical Sense To All the Hurricane Hype