Many people believe that one of the useful things the Federal Government does for the nation is produce useful information. Most people believe that the information provided by the government is reliable. For example, the American Community Survey (ACS) is full of information. This information is useful to researchers, companies, interested individuals and policy makers at different levels of government. House Republicans however do not support such surveys because they believe at $70 per survey respondent they are “not cost effective”. Republican Daniel Webster also believes the surveys are not scientific. The surveys are just random in his view since survey respondents are chosen randomly and therefore lead to random results.
Daniel Webster believes that for the surveys to produce reliable results they would need to survey every single American for each survey. Although some people believe that by taking random samples the Census Bureau is able to make scientifically valid inferences about the state of the overall population, the Republican Party has conducted their own surveys and have formed the opinion that these random surveys should be discontinued.
The Republican Party also surveyed opinion on opinion polls and have found that a random sample of party members do not believe in opinion polls, therefore unless the polls are favorable to the Republican Party they believe that these should be discontinued as well.
