I was reading the Tuscaloosa News online today, and I ran into a story about the statistics that have emerged out of the latest census. The story discussed the problems that exist with the latest census. Several officials are speaking out and saying that the population numbers the census puts forth are inaccurate and could cause their towns difficulty. On the flip side, Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox has come out and said that these numbers demonstrate that Tuscaloosa shows an 8% increase in population since the last census.
This story got me thinking . . . what could population statistics that misrepresent (either in a positive or negative manner) the people who live in certain areas mean? What affects could these numbers produce? Why does it matter?
What do you think?
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