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tabbypurr@gmail.com writes:

> On Friday, 26 May 2017 10:28:13 UTC+1, whit3rd  wrote:
>> On Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 4:00:15 PM UTC-7, tabby wrote:
>> > On Thursday, 25 May 2017 21:57:54 UTC+1, whit3rd  wrote:
>
>> > > Lacking  census data, one cannot authoritatively cry 'waste'.
>> > 
>> > One sure can. 
>> 
>> But, a responsible government "of the people, by the people, for the people" 
>> cannot be effective without knowledge of the  people.
>
> true
>
>> Neither can you, or anyone, know what is effective without data
>> such as the census provides. 
>
> that is patently not true. When I see government funds misused
> routinely to replace things that there's simply nothing wrong with, I
> do know that behaviour is ineffective and grossly wasteful. It goes on
> all the time here.

The question is how does one find what *is* effective.

Otherwise known as evidence based policy. It is a quaint idea that is
out of fashion at the moment (as if it was ever in).


>
>> Ideas about 'waste' without data are ... worthless.
>
> I and many like me have enough data to know they're real. You don't
> need surveys and polls and analyses to know that a library full of 3
> year old desks in almost as new condition being replaced by much the
> same thing is a total waste.

sounds like "the government" unthinking acted without evidence of need
there, doesn't it?



>
> Census data has nothing to do with it.
>
>
> NT

-- 

John Devereux

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