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What the Government Needs
What the Government Needs
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Of course, the federal government involves a very broad spectrum of activities. The Environmental Protection Agency is a regulatory agency, and most of what EPA focuses on in the statistical area is Chic policy decision making.
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~ initially worked in the Army Research Institute, and we sat in our offices doing what we wanted until the telephone rang and somebody said, "We have a problem; come out and help us solve it." We did, and there was never a lack of work to be done. But in the public policy area, that is not the case.
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That is not a very good or popular way to operate in a public policy arena, and here is where statisticians run into trouble. Part of that trouble is that, outside of an academic world or outside of a research laboratory with which they might be affiliated in the university, they have had no experience or training in what their role would be in the real working world.
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However, in the federal government that is not done very easily because the Environmental Protection Agency is not the only federal agency collecting environmental data. The Department of Interior is implementing a new National Biological Survey in which they want to do the same thing.
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