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Lies, damned lies and statistics
Despite Statistics Canada’s initial claims, its website didn’t crash because Canadians love filling out the census
Remember all the media hype last month about how Canadians were so overjoyed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s restoration of the long-form census killed by Stephen Harper, they crashed Statistics Canada’s website in their rush to provide census information to the government?
Turns out it wasn’t true.
As revealed by CBC senior parliamentary reporter Dean Beeby, using internal documents obtained under the Access to Information Act, none of the three computer crashes that affected the StatsCan census site May 2 — the first day people could fill out the form online — had to do with the number of people accessing the site.
In fact, Beeby reports, computer traffic was only about half of the capacity StatsCan expected.
more
Lies, damned lies and statistics | Goldstein | Canada | News | Toronto Sun
Lies, damned lies and statistics
Despite Statistics Canada’s initial claims, its website didn’t crash because Canadians love filling out the census
Remember all the media hype last month about how Canadians were so overjoyed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s restoration of the long-form census killed by Stephen Harper, they crashed Statistics Canada’s website in their rush to provide census information to the government?
Turns out it wasn’t true.
As revealed by CBC senior parliamentary reporter Dean Beeby, using internal documents obtained under the Access to Information Act, none of the three computer crashes that affected the StatsCan census site May 2 — the first day people could fill out the form online — had to do with the number of people accessing the site.
In fact, Beeby reports, computer traffic was only about half of the capacity StatsCan expected.
more
Lies, damned lies and statistics | Goldstein | Canada | News | Toronto Sun
