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by alephnan 1850 days ago
> American data collection culture

And that can't be challenged?

In some dictatorships, the government can claim 95% of the election votes went to the incumbent.

The US unemployment rate published by the Bureau of Labor does not reflect the true unemployment rate.

The Three-fifths Compromise considered certain people only worth 3/5th of a person. Government defined metrics aren't a scientific / objective measure of the physical or moral world.

> pet analysis and pet causal theories, and imaginary drill-downs into the data which don't exist! ... You are making your own fantasy data

Let me know if you get a 404 error

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/chart/educational-...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/these-groups-of-asian...

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669...