What's the most common lie people tell on Census forms?
Aaron Gertler
WILMINGTON, DEL.
The research is pretty clear: there are very few people who deliberately lie. There are interesting answers that people supply. When we're asking about race, every decade a few people will write in "human." So that is probably not a lie.
Why is the word Negro--considered by many to be a racial slur--used in the race section?
Matthew Thacker
BOWLING GREEN, OHIO
Before the 2000 Census, there were a set of studies that queried how people...