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...long-brewing feud, last Friday the White House and some members of Congress reached a tentative agreement about the census for the year 2000. Next year the census will be administered two different ways to two cities. In Columbia, South Carolina, residents will be subjected to the traditional census method, which is comprised of mailings and head counters who travel from house to house. At the same time in Sacramento, California, the new counting method, based on statistical sampling, that the Census takers have tried to implement since the 1990 census was taken will be tested. While this sounds quite...
...would a simple count cause so much controversy? It all stems from statistical sampling, the basis of the new method of census taking. Of course, statistical sampling does not sound that new to anyone who has had to sit through the QRR exam. For those of you who may have forgotten, through statistical sampling, census takers would directly count 90 percent of households and then extrapolate that data to look at the non-responders. As a result, the country could potentially save $900 million...
...around $4 billion, and it missed more than 10 million people. Of the 290 million people in the country, only 61 percent answered the survey. While this seems like an obvious example of bureaucratic waste that must be revised, there has been strong opposition to the alternative statistical sampling method. The furor against statistical sampling arose when some Republicans released a report that said that through statistical sampling, they could lose as many as 30 seats in the House. Therefore, they claim that statistical sampling could be use to gain political leverage by the Democrats, and so they have tried...
Unfortunately, the vast majority of people who are missed by the census are at the lower income level. For that reason, the Republican party was upset at the idea of statistical sampling. Census takers believed that this new method would compensate for those missed, and since that part of the county tends to be mostly Democratic, the Republican party felt they would lose seats if districts were redrawn. However, also included in the people missed in the Census are the rural poor, who usually tend to vote Republican, and so most people believe that few drastic changes will be necessary...
...suggest the violence in some interesting ways--most notably the scene in which Tamora, Queen of the Goths, and her sons Demitrius and Chiron, seek audience with Titus: it's transplanted into Titus' bath, accentuating the play's obsession with human flesh. Indeed, as if to further this alternative method of presenting this obsession, nearly all of the principal characters at some point or other are at least partially undressed. However, music, sound and lighting, much more than the actual set, are used to evoke an eerie, faintly unearthly atmosphere, and do so effectively. This is more than...