Dialing down the signal

Another example of hiding the signal.

/1. Yesterday at the ACS Data Users Conference, the Census Bureau described its plans to replace the American Community Survey (ACS) microdata with “fully synthetic” data over the next three years. pic.twitter.com/8btLxiA3iM

— Steven Ruggles (@HistDem) May 21, 2021

Click to read the thread.  The Census Bureau are pretending that there is the potential of breach of confidentiality for respondents even though that has never occurred.   

Social scientists are up in arms because the American Community Survey is a central and always revealing and informative mechanism for understanding reality and cause and effect.  Take it away and we will know less.

Which seems to be the real plan.