So, one thing that's important when you are doing research is to use more than one source. I'm not going to say outright that the author is wrong, but here are some quotes that should make you want to find more information.
"While I am not technically a statistician, I do pay $7 a month for Microsoft Excel"
"the New York City comptroller issued a widely circulated report on pandemic migration, which cheerfully asserted that “since July 2021, USPS data has shown an estimated net gain of 6,332 permanent movers"
"Placer.AI published a study this past summer that found Manhattan’s population had recovered its pandemic losses, then followed it up this month with a claim that the borough is now 3.9 percent more populous than it had been in 2018"
"...data from the New York City Water Board, which shows that the amount of waste treated by the city’s processing plants jumped in 2021"
Also some of these points are not as strong as they seem. Remember that the claim is that people are not coming back to New York _after_ the pandemic, not during.
the [census] bureau announced that New York City lost 305,000 residents between July 2020 and July 2021
The article also links to a lot of stories and reports that make different claims than the author is making, with the implication that there is some kind of conspiracy to make it seem like there are more people in New York than there actually are. But if the data is really there then 1) why are the professionals coming to different conclusions than the author, and 2) why aren't there more people coming to the same conclusion as the author? There are quite a few people in New York who know how to use Excel.
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So, one thing that's important when you are doing research is to use more than one source. I'm not going to say outright that the author is wrong, but here are some quotes that should make you want to find more information.
Also some of these points are not as strong as they seem. Remember that the claim is that people are not coming back to New York _after_ the pandemic, not during.
The article also links to a lot of stories and reports that make different claims than the author is making, with the implication that there is some kind of conspiracy to make it seem like there are more people in New York than there actually are. But if the data is really there then 1) why are the professionals coming to different conclusions than the author, and 2) why aren't there more people coming to the same conclusion as the author? There are quite a few people in New York who know how to use Excel.