Successful management of anything -- a startup, a corporation, or an entire country -- requires successful measurement. Successful measurement requires collect

Successful management of anything -- a startup, a corporation, or an entire country -- requires successful measurement. Successful measurement requires collecting good, accurate data. Sabotaging the census is tantamount to sabotaging the government's ability to run the country. It's the sort of thing that in my mind should be able to happen only in poorly-run countries managed by corrupt regimes. The leading statistician claiming that the census is being sabotaged, Robert Santos, was recently elected as President of the American Statistical Association. We should probably take his claims seriously. I find it almost unbelievable that this is happening in the United States of America.