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It seems like important information is missing with regards to their conclusion. Their conclusion is "But how effective can they be if they fail to reach 15% o
by dsp1234 11y ago
It seems like important information is missing with regards to their conclusion.
Their conclusion is "But how effective can they be if they fail to reach 15% of a population?".
However, if they are excluding all other Uber services other than UberX from their analysis, then that's problematic since those other services could be covering that 15% of the population.
Do the totality of Uber services provide coverage in the areas that this analysis highlights? I don't know, and given the analysis as written, I don't know how anyone else can either (without doing another analysis). So it seems at least worth considering whether convoluted vs contradicted is the case since we're missing a key piece of information.
- tssva 11y ago"But how effective can they be if they fail to reach 15% of a population" was in reference to the fact that almost 15% of the DC population doesn't have a bank account which the author took to mean they can't use UberX or any other Uber service. This isn't strictly true but the barrier to entry without a bank account is high enough to dissuade most of this population from using Uber services.