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2020 Census Statistics Highlight Local Population Changes
- chrisseaton 5y ago> 2020 Census Statistics Highlight Local Population Changes Well you’d hope so or it wouldn’t be a very good census!
- jdavis703 5y ago> The Some Other Race alone or in combination group (49.9 million) increased 129%, surpassing the Black or African American population (46.9 million) as the second-largest race alone or in combination group. Who are these “others” and how do they identify? At least in Oakland, CA I noticed the majority of people who reported Hispanic/Latino ethnicity selected “other” for race. Are we entering into post-racial identity? Did the Census screw up and forget a burgeoning identity?
- brighton36 5y agoI always write-in other. Both on gender and race. Mostly because I resent the politics.
- netizen-936824 5y agoSame here, its not based on anything concrete. Its just bullshit.
- wolverine876 5y agoI hate the politics too, but IME ignoring them hasn't made them go away.
- netizen-936824 5y agoThat doesn't mean you have to participate according to their terms. A form of protest can be to make their numbers meaningless for their purposes.
- gruez 5y ago>Are we entering into post-racial identity? Did the Census screw up and forget a burgeoning identity? Nah, all those people got a 23&me test and found out they were 1/64th cherokee or whatever, so they put themselves down as "Some Other Race alone or in combination ".
- 908B64B197 5y ago> Did the Census screw up and forget a burgeoning identity? "Mixed" folks. Same thing with college admissions. What should they select?
- jdavis703 5y agoThe Census has a two or more races option. I could see how a form designer would expect someone who is mixed to select that option. But perhaps “two or more races” doesn’t register when people identify more closely as “mixed” or “bi-racial” while rushing through government paper work (that is to say I’ve never heard someone describe themselves as being “two or more races”.)
- Retric 5y agoMost people aren’t of any single race. America is used to 3/4 white 1/4 black being considered black, but what about 1/2 white, 1/4 Hispanic, 1/4 Asian.
- nobody9999 5y ago>Most people aren’t of any single race. I disagree. In fact, I'd say that people (at least all the ones we know) are entirely one race: Human.
- Retric 5y agoEven then we are early modern humans (Homo Sapiens) mixed with some Neanderthal.
- nobody9999 5y ago>Even then we are early modern humans (Homo Sapiens) mixed with some Neanderthal. That's both reductive and misleading. There is only one living sentient primate species on this planet. Homo Sapiens. What's more, it's entirely possible that all humans are descended from a subset of 3-10k individuals who lived ~75,000 years ago[1]. Even more, there is often more genetic diversity within human groupings than between them[0]. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
- aiisjustanif 5y agoTell that to history, current social issues, vitamin D levels, sickle cell and the cops.
- nobody9999 5y ago"Racism" is an outdated concept and should be relegated to the dustbin of history. What it is we're discussing is bigotry. And it should be called out for what it is: hateful prejudice for no real reason at all other than the anger and hatred of those who practice it.
- clircle 5y agoDisappointed that there's not a single graph in this press release. C'mon Census Bureau!
- ClosedPistachio 5y agoI understand more presentable data/graphs will be released by the end of September
- coolgeek 5y agoFourth paragraph (first section): > The Census Bureau also released data visualizations, America Counts stories, and videos to help illustrate and explain these data. These resources are available on the 2020 Census results page. Advanced users can access these data on the FTP site. There are five links in that paragraph. The first link points to over 100 other articles with graphic illustrations https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations.html https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations.html
- aaron695 5y agoIt's time to popularise getting people not to fill out the census. It's not your civic duty anymore. The government already has too much data, more than they need. There are already attacks because the census used differential privacy. People don't care about your privacy. We have to learn to stop giving out our data anywhere Here's a example of how the privacy measures weaken the data because it's now too easy to trace it to people - https://twitter.com/HistDem/status/1410682403279060993 https://twitter.com/HistDem/status/1410682403279060993 Here's the 16 states attacking your census data privacy - https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/993247101/for-the-u-s-census-keeping-your-data-anonymous-and-useful-is-a-tricky-balance https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/993247101/for-the-u-s-census-...
- klipt 5y agoIf you don't fill out the census your congressional representatives will be reallocated to other areas.
- aaron695 5y agoIf you are not on Facebook you will lose social contacts. But you have to make a decision, do you give out all your data or fight back. Privacy won't come for free. They don't need to do a census and they don't need most of the data on the census. Do we really think the solution to problem X is another study from a data scientist using census data. This should worry you, and it's not a solvable problem. The more anonymous the data the lesser the quality. " In a worst-case scenario, the bureau's researchers estimated, attackers with access to more commercial data could unmask the identities of as many 179 million people, or 58% of the population included in the 2010 census."
- mensetmanusman 5y agoThe census could totally be real time with daily satellite flyovers that take high-resolution pictures of everyone from above.
- jdavis703 5y agoWhat about counting institutionalized people in places like nursing homes and prisons? How do you count people in cars with multiple occupants? How do you know who’s a resident any who’s a foreign visitor?
- robbedpeter 5y agoWe'll need an agency of people inspectors, authorized to enter residences and institutions to count people.
- postoak 5y agoIf we hire everyone to be a people inspector we can use the employment records as the census.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoI wonder, census doesn’t, and can never, be exact, it is about allocating resources to support people using infrastructure.
- OldHand2018 5y agoWe've crossed the threshold - more than half of all counties in the US are losing population. Almost all of the growth happened in the most heavily populated counties. That's amazing to think about.