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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Zoltan! who wrote (129920)3/1/2001 7:38:49 PM
From: ThirdEye  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
The idea that a scientist could deliberately design a bogus sample for something such as the census, risking his professional reputation on the notion that a politically motivated skewing of data would escape unnoticed, is pure trash.

There is much data available on many topics that is derived by sampling that Republicans rely on just as much as anyone else. You also read polls, also derived by statistical sampling, frequently and refer to them as though they are gospel when it suits you, and as politically poisoned when they don't.

Once it is determined what information is desired by the census, which was not controlled by Democrats, there's nothing political about gathering it. The fact that Republicans blocked the use of sampling for the 2000 census is a hypocrisy that only speaks of their fear of actually giving voice to all citizens.
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