Statisticians are voicing fears about the possibility that data will be manipulated to support whatever position the Trump administration may adopt, on everything from abortion to immigration to racial inequality.
And there’s another possibility that seniors should beware of: massaging the numbers to back unwelcome changes to the social safety net, including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
The Guardian reported that a number of U.S. statisticians, including the outgoing head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the former chief statistician of the U.S., are afraid that the Trump administration might suppress or manipulate public statistics that “don’t fit his narrative of the truth.”
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