Are official GDP growth statistics wrong?

[Beet]

Growth statistics are often wrong, but they obviously aren't made up for political gain. They do however usually get adjusted more than once. At least three of the quarters since 2000 currently classified as contraction were originally reported as expansion at the time. Since 2000, only one quarter (Q3 2001) was originally reported as contraction.

[Beet]

And the final results are in, official GDP growth statistics WERE wrong.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_bi_ge/recession

You don't understand. NBER uses its own methodology, not the two quarters of recession methodology. Quarterly growth is still listed as +1.9% for Q2 2008.