The US is on the verge of abandoning a key global advantage: Honest data about itself

The US is on the verge of abandoning a key global advantage: Honest data about itself

In another case of the “America First” president cutting off his nose to spite his face, Donald Trump is considering the appointment of someone with no background in statistics to run the US census. Running a shoddy survey, out of political opportunism or simple incompetence, would compromise one of the great advantages of the United…