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Re:'Calling bullshit': the college class on how not to be du... by BrandonMarc on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @02:48PM (#19685316)
... and the officials don't have an incentive to diminish the stats?
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Re:'Calling bullshit': the college class on how not to be du... by tptacek on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @03:02PM (#19685433)
They currently (and at the time the stats were last collected) have the exact opposite incentive.
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Re:'Calling bullshit': the college class on how not to be du... by BrandonMarc on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @06:20PM (#19686947)
Maybe from the top of the US administration, yes. But from the guys over the nearby river, with their "plata o plomo" billboards ...

Maybe I'm wrong. I'll simply observe officials have various incentives to tweak the numbers in either direction.

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