The Hidden Stories In The U.S. Census
FiveThirtyEight Politics
ABC News
4.6 • 20.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How did Malcolm finally gain his cat's respect? |
| 0:03.1 | Was it because he saved 35% on Trainline, |
| 0:06.0 | then bravely looked into the eyes of his dismissive pet, |
| 0:09.2 | where he saw something that said, |
| 0:11.9 | I don't actually hate you. |
| 0:14.9 | His Trainline detanged for Malcolm gaining his cat's respect. |
| 0:18.8 | We hope so. |
| 0:19.7 | We really do. |
| 0:21.4 | Great journey start with Trainline. |
| 0:24.2 | Average savings from advanced fairs, rail carts and split-save were available |
| 0:27.2 | versus equivalent flexible fair TNC's apply. |
| 0:57.7 | Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm Gaelin Drouk. |
| 1:03.0 | We have a regular segment on this show. |
| 1:05.7 | The premise of which is that data shouldn't simply be taken at face value. |
| 1:10.7 | It's important to ask, is it a good or bad use of polling or a good or bad use of data? |
| 1:17.4 | As listeners, well, no. |
| 1:18.9 | And what we've tried to stress over all these years is that data can go awry in all kinds of ways. |
| 1:25.0 | When it comes to polling, question design matters, |
| 1:27.6 | how you reach people matters, how you make up for a skewed sample after the fact matters, |
| 1:32.7 | and of course, how resulting numbers are framed certainly matters. |
| 1:37.8 | Our guest today makes the case that America's most famous data set should also not be taken |
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