Hi,
It's time to stand up and be counted again (if you're a Canadian anyway). This is the link to the online census:
http://www50.statcan.ca/census2006/
As I was filling it out, I was wondering what sort of interesting stats they're going to reveal to us after they've tabulated the results. I was also wondering what the margin of error is. At last count, there were roughly 32 million people in Canada. Or at least, there were roughly 32 million people 'counted' in Canada. I know that we can't possibly ever get the exact number with our current methods, but what do you suppose is our margin of error? And is it the same as the margin of error everywhere? Or is the margin different depending on the size of the country? Or does the margin change depending on the wealth of the country? Are there really only 6.5 billion people on Earth? Maybe there are already 7.5 billion, but our methods of keeping track of everybody are not very accurate.
Anyway, these are the sorts of things I wonder about when I can't sleep. So please help me sleep better and make sure you count yourself in! =)
a bientot
1 comment:
You have to think that a lot of Chinese and Indian people don't get counted. I really don't take their numbers too seriously. I'm sure there is a fair amount of guessing involved.
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