The U.S. Census Is Wrong on Purpose
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According to the just-published 2020 U.S. Census data, Monowi now had 2 residents, doubling its population.
This came as a surprise to Elsie, who told a local newspaper, “Then someone’s been hiding from me, and there’s nowhere to live but my house.”
It turns out that nobody new had actually moved to Monowi without Elsie realizing. And the census bureau didn’t make a mistake. They intentionally changed the census data, adding one resident.
Today, I learned about the concept of differential privacy.