I’m sure he was. A lot of the professionals at the Bureau are pre-angered. A lot of statistical professionals not in the Bureau are pre-angered by the Republican shenanigans of the last 20+ years.
He’s a sampling guy. They are almost all frequentists.
This is all total bullshit! Why bother with a statistician when the Constitution clearly says you can only count real people? What we need is someone expert in counting up to the hundreds of millions on their fingers! Or at the very least, counting on their RIGHT hand, which traditionally gets awarded additional fingers in the counting process.