求一道GWD的题目

cjy861990

Historian:  In the Drindian Empire, censuses were conducted annually to determine the population of each village.  Village census records for the last half of the 1600’s are remarkably complete.  This very completeness makes one point stand out; in five different years, villages overwhelmingly reported significant population declines.  Tellingly, each of those five years immediately followed an increase in a certain Drindian tax.  This tax, which was assessed on villages, was computed by the central government using the annual census figures.  Obviously, whenever the tax went up, villages had an especially powerful economic incentive to minimize the number of people they recorded; and concealing the size of a village’s population from government census takers would have been easy.  Therefore, it is reasonable to think that the reported declines did not happen.
这里是说人们瞒报人口是为了避税  那么照理说census的结果应该是村庄每年的人口每年都在下降啊 但为什么又说reported declines did not happen?

子弹青春

Actually"reported declines did not happen"means population did not decline in fact.