Quote

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

— Aaron Sorkin

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

←Previous Next→

✓Similar Perspectives

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

— Rob Lowe

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

— Michael Lewis

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

— Patrick McHenry

Americans are fed up with these mandatory census surveys, and they're asking us to stop the harassment.

— Jeff Duncan

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

— Koren Zailckas

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

— Tom G. Palmer

The Census Bureau can ask citizens very invasive questions, and if they don't respond, the government shows up at their door and threatens them with a fine.

— Jeff Duncan

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

— Pete du Pont

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing. I think even constitutional purists would tell you that just because something isn't in the Constitution does not mean the government cannot do it.

— Mark Davis

My subcommittee will be thoroughly investigating this issue and demanding answers from Census officials on allegations that the Census Bureau is changing the wording of survey questions used to determine our nation's annual report on health insurance coverage.

— Blake Farenthold