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<blockquote data-quote="Jd Smith1" data-source="post: 8417270" data-attributes="member: 6998052">No, not really. I spent over a third of my career with the additional duty of overseeing my department's contribution to several Federal databases, databases which are regularly quoted in the minutes of Congress and virtually every state Legislature. I attended regional and national seminars for persons assigned to the same duty in departments large and small.And the numbers were, are, and will continue to be, largely BS.&nbsp; We submitted the information that served the needs of our political masters. Who ensured that despite being supposedly vital government statistics, said data was not bound to any enforcement standard whatsoever.So the US census? Not credible in any grand level, unless the truth happens to meet the standard desired. As Disraeli noted: There are three types of falsehood: lies, damned lies, and statistics.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jd Smith1, post: 8417270, member: 6998052"] No, not really. I spent over a third of my career with the additional duty of overseeing my department's contribution to several Federal databases, databases which are regularly quoted in the minutes of Congress and virtually every state Legislature. I attended regional and national seminars for persons assigned to the same duty in departments large and small. And the numbers were, are, and will continue to be, largely BS. We submitted the information that served the needs of our political masters. Who ensured that despite being supposedly vital government statistics, said data was not bound to any enforcement standard whatsoever. So the US census? Not credible in any grand level, unless the truth happens to meet the standard desired. As Disraeli noted: There are three types of falsehood: lies, damned lies, and statistics. [/QUOTE]

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