, Columnist
Trump and Statistics Don’t Mix
Three of the president's projects would stump even a trained professional.
Not a numbers guy.
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The Trump administration has taken on three ambitious statistical projects: tracking down cases of voter registration fraud, identifying racism in college admissions and developing an algorithm for “extreme vetting” of visa applications.
These would all be very tricky even for a trained professional. I doubt the president’s people are up to the task.