Historical demographer and data impresario Wired profile: wired.com/1995/03/ruggles/ Data: ipums.org
Minneapolis, MN
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@Steven Ruggles retweeted
Minnesota is a shit hole that I’m embarrassed to live in. Here’s why Minnesotans should make me their next senator.
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I suspected this. They are so incredibly stupid.
Trump’s Census Proposal Could Cut House Seats From Red States nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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@Steven Ruggles retweeted
(1/X) The following are as certain as the run rising tomorrow:
(a) Trump will leave the US (and GOP) in shambles
(b) Neither Trump nor anyone who facilitated him will pay a price
(c) Ppl who accurately predicted how bad Trump2 would be will be portrayed as hysterical..
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@Steven Ruggles retweeted
This graphic is from my 2015 Presidential Address at the PAA, later published as "Patriarchy, Power, and Pay" (Link in reply)
Guys, the single-income, middle class household is a historical anomaly that basically only existed between the productivity boom of late industrialization & the global demand explosion for American industry after WWII. Women have brought in income for most of human history.
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This graphic is from my 2015 Presidential Address at the PAA, later published as "Patriarchy, Power, and Pay" (Link in reply)
Guys, the single-income, middle class household is a historical anomaly that basically only existed between the productivity boom of late industrialization & the global demand explosion for American industry after WWII. Women have brought in income for most of human history.
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"I mean, that’s just dumb"
Steven Ruggles, a professor at the University of Minnesota
“I think the fact that it’s rather complex and difficult to understand makes it a prime target for politically mischievous groups who want to sow distrust within systems and distrust within the government.”
Misty Heggeness, professor at the University of Kansas
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I did say this: “crazy, insane, right-wing conspiracy theories that somehow differential privacy and disclosure control more broadly is somehow biased towards Democrats or something — I mean, that’s just dumb" 1/2
A right-wing disinformation campaign is using completely false information about the Census Bureau to feed GOP delusions that immigrants are helping Democrats rig federal elections. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/h…
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@Steven Ruggles retweeted
A right-wing disinformation campaign is using completely false information about the Census Bureau to feed GOP delusions that immigrants are helping Democrats rig federal elections. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/h…
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@Steven Ruggles retweeted
This graph from our new paper on the invention of microdata shows the involvement of PAA presidents with the Census Bureau from 1930 to 2019.
The tiny grey bar on the right of the graph represents me. 1/2
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This graph from our new paper on the invention of microdata shows the involvement of PAA presidents with the Census Bureau from 1930 to 2019.
The tiny grey bar on the right of the graph represents me. 1/2
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(I was on the Census Scientific Advisory Committee from 2012 to 2015 and was PAA president in 2015.) 2/2
doi.org/10.1215/00703370-127…
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@Steven Ruggles retweeted
A nice new piece of institutional backstory on the Census microdata we use (by Magnuson & Ruggles)
In “Equally Available to Anyone,” @dldmag & @HistDem describe the story of the invention of the 1st microdata sample in interactions between Census Bureau staff & the PAA & how that collaboration “can be a model for preserving broad access" going forward. read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
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@Steven Ruggles retweeted
In “Equally Available to Anyone,” @dldmag & @HistDem describe the story of the invention of the 1st microdata sample in interactions between Census Bureau staff & the PAA & how that collaboration “can be a model for preserving broad access" going forward. read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
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