Under Stalin, statisticians who collected the "wrong" values were likely to come to a very nasty end - I imagine something like that leaves a lingering fear in

Under Stalin, statisticians who collected the "wrong" values were likely to come to a very nasty end - I imagine something like that leaves a lingering fear in any society/profession: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Census_(1937) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Census_(1937)