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After the substantial undercounts of the 1990 census, when many Americans lost their share of representation in Congress, statisticians at the Census Bureau proposed the use of statistical sampling to find those Americans who were missed by traditional methods. The essence of the plan would have supplemented the traditional census with a high-intensity survey of randomly selected districts, so as to find the degree of undercounting in those areas; the original census would then be adjusted to reflect the better data. Although there were reasonable arguments challenging the effectiveness of specific sampling procedures, the Census Bureau felt that that...
...wild guessing--and supporters, upholding the counterintuitive position that guesses can improve accuracy, were hard pressed to explain standard deviations in sound bites. In the end, the matter was put to an end by a five-to-four Supreme Court decision, and the unadjusted numbers were released by the Census Bureau two weeks ago--but as with another recent five-to-four decision, the question has hardly died away...
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...Official population of the U.S., according to the Census Bureau, a 13.2% increase since...
...most recent U.S. Census data revealed that...