As a follow up to the previous post on the US Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract, here's my Search Insider column which ran today. The tone is a little more tongue in cheek.
I always find it amusing when I tend to take things a little more light heartedly how people suddenly take the content more seriously. I was just checking on the SearchInsider blog and already there are comments defending the stats. To date, the two columns which have elicited the most comments are the one on Google's fighting the adoption of Googling as a verb and one on using Google Trends to analyze the ebb and flow of popular support for the American Idol contestants. The Census Bureau column promises to be right up there.