Why Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel Malinsky
via theguardian.com
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From the firing of the labor statistics chief to plans for a new census, the president’s moves serve to entrench authoritarianism In 1937, Joseph Stalin commissioned a sweeping census of the Soviet Union. The data reflected some uncomfortable facts – in particular, the dampening of population growth in areas devastated by the 1933 famine – […]