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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
Clearly our high schools are doing a pisspoor job of teaching calculus. Crawford is talking about the rate of immigration, which is related to your curve's derivative, which is approaching zero (obviously death rate contributes too).
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Crawford is talking about 1 year of data, based off of a survey. A survey that does not include undocumented immigrants -- because there is no data on people that don't have documents.
He is then forming a conclusion about long term trends based off of the results of one year of data.
That is similar to somebody saying New York City will be empty in the future because it lost population last year, while ignoring the fact that NYC has gained population since the 2010 census.