Illustration of the effect of the proposed 1990 adjustment on State shares. Figure courtesy of Brown et al . 1998. Random errors to cancel, but systematic errors don't. Arguments that systematic errors in the adjustment cancel depend on statistical models. The models are false, and have bizarre consequences.
Adjustment depends on dubious statistical model for unresolved cases.
The 1990 adjustment adds more people than Demographic Analysis says were missed, including about a million extra women. Because of bias, the adjustment probably puts the people in the wrong place, making state shares worse. References Bell, W.R., 1993. Using Information from Demographic Analysis in Post-Enumeration Survey Estimation, J. Amer. Breiman, L., 1994.