[imtringued]

How do you know the failure rate is the same everywhere? It is very possible that the failure rate correlates with the region because it is not a purely stochastic process. Some users here think the government has no business in demanding census information and simply ignore it.

[c22]

I don't have any data either way, do you? HN users don't represent a geographical region, per se, but I suppose you could argue that they're mostly in SF? Regardless, I imagine there are other communities that might also have a higher-than-baseline failure rate, but absent any evidence I have no reason to assume they're not fairly randomly distributed geographically. Especially at the granularity of US states.