Posted on 08/24/2021 8:16:42 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
The only resident of Nebraska’s only one-person town was surprised when she heard the news.
The U.S. Census Bureau was reporting Monowi’s population had exploded by 100% and was now home to two people, according to 2020 results it recently released.
“Well, then someone’s been hiding from me, and there’s nowhere to live but my house,” Elise Eiler said Wednesday. “But if you find out who he is, let me know?”
His name is Noise, and he was created by an algorithm to try to protect Eiler’s personal information. Monowi didn’t add another resident to its population, but the Census Bureau did.
“What you’re seeing there is the noise we add to the data so you can’t figure out who is living there,” a Census spokeswoman said. “It protects the privacy of the respondent and the confidentiality of the data they provide.”
The bureau doesn’t invent respondents, the spokeswoman said. But it does shift them from one census block or tract to another. And while the discrepancies might be apparent and confusing at that micro level — like when a town’s only resident is shocked to hear she has a neighbor — the numbers are still accurate when zoomed farther out, like at the congressional district level.
“We take the same number of people, but we move them around,” the Census spokeswoman said. “When you look at it all the way out, it’s correct.”
They call it disclosure avoidance, and the bureau has used it in the past. But for the 2020 count — because of increases in computer processing power and publicly available information — it reinforced its efforts and gave it a new name, differential privacy.
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Must be a Biden Voter, then.......................
I could probably handle being the only resident of such a place.
Everything and one else at least many many miles away.
They did the same with the votes in 2020.................
“We take the same number of people, but we move them around”.
Highest bidder always wins?.
Afghan refugee.
Same thing
“Differential Voter Block”
I wonder how many of these mystery counts are named Ruido.
And all three residents voted for Biden.
Yup. All four.
The government effs with EVERYTHING. And when caught have pre-made excuses.
FLM. Fictional Lives Matter when it comes to the Census Bureau protecting the data of a single resident district.
Probably doubled the representation in the house when they changed the district lines. The character was made up so to get rid of it before taxes it will have to die. Probably of covid like a lot of other people as no one seemed to investigate their deaths, either.
wy69
The wife and I were traveling across the country one time and saw a town with a population of 2 but in this case, it actually was two, husband and wife. They later sold the town for $900k. Buford, WY.
This is going to be awful for future genealogists:
”…it does shift them [people] from one census block or tract to another. And while the discrepancies might be apparent and confusing at that micro level… the numbers are still accurate when zoomed farther out, like at the congressional district level.I’ve been working on family history the past few years and enjoy finding out EXACTLY where my ancestors lived down to the street address and house. Are they mucking up the original data? Will future historians see the actual data or only the bollixed-up data?We take the same number of people, but we move them around…”
Everything from DC is a lie. Ever GD thing.
Let’s just hope she doesn’t test positive for Covid. It will be reported worldwide as the city with a 100% infection rate.
A bit rich for me but if I had the means……
His name is Noise, and he was created by an algorithm ————————————
To me this is where we all become numbers.
the numbers are still accurate when zoomed farther out, like at the congressional district level.
Proof the Census Bureau is one and the same as the Elections Office.
How many times did Noise vote?
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