Researchers: 2020 Census Multiracial Count ‘Misled’ Public

The American public was “misled” by census results in 2020 that said the multiracial population in the United States was rapidly growing, argue two Princeton University sociologists.

The census revealed a 276% surge in the nation’s multiracial population between 2010 and 2020, but that was caused by how the Census Bureau classified individuals and by the use of a computerized algorithm that counted the results incorrectly, the sociologists, Paul Starr and Christina Pao, wrote in a recent paper, reports Newsweek.

The dramatic jump that was reported was an illusion, not a demographic shift, Starr and Pao said.

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