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It seems very unlikely that this census is corrupted. It’s also a census so the margin of error is not within a plausible margin of error.
by prepend 6y ago
It seems very unlikely that this census is corrupted. It’s also a census so the margin of error is not within a plausible margin of error.
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- wavefunction 6y agoThe process was highly politicized and one party and the one in power while the census was administered stood to gain from sowing doubt, fear and confusion. I think the actual results gathering was handled normally but the idea of course was to depress census response rates.
- prepend 6y agoMotive isn’t evidence. I haven’t seen any serious criticism of data collection methods. Just doubting results based on “stood to gain” is silly unless there’s actual evidence. In what world would there be a conspiracy to reduce california population by 200k?
- Tostino 6y agoConsidering that is how congressional seats are apportioned, there is plenty of reason to fudge the numbers.
- windthrown 6y agoBut again, motive alone is empty. There is "plenty of reason" for me to do all kinds of terrible things that I consider abhorrent and would never act on.
- Dma54rhs 6y agoThat's just fear mongering and conspiracy theories. Looks like someone watched too much CNN/Fox.
- wavefunction 6y agoBOTH SIDES fuck dude
- throwawayboise 6y agoThis is election denialism in another guise. Do you trust our civic processes or do you not?
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- cma 6y agoThere were lots of news stories of how it was changing wrt to people here illegally. The supreme court even stopped some of the challenge of it, right? The article doesn't break that part down at least from what I could search in it. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/win-trump-supreme-court-throws-out-challenge-his-census-plan-n1251698 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/win-trump-sup...
- prepend 6y agoWhat does that have to do with california having fewer people in the census. The ruling was to count non-citizen residents.
- Steko 6y agoThis news isn’t even based on the census. CA grew from 2010-2020 under the census. This number is from the CA dept of finance and is for just 2020.