Yeh, I think people underestimate the power of influence and people do not correlate it or study cause and effect enough in studies. The influence your communi

Yeh, I think people underestimate the power of influence and people do not correlate it or study cause and effect enough in studies. The influence your community has on your personal decisions and how that impacts your personal wealth is significant. Weve already witnessed highschool suicides tend to happen in clusters. Weve witnessed it as a nation at Gunn Highschool in SanFran and other areas. If one kid does it, the two others who were seriously considering it are more likely to follow through. This is also a root cause of the housing foreclosure crisis. Wired Magazine did a piece. One of the missing pieces of analysis was the correlation noticed when one person on your street forecloses on a house, how much the likelihood goes up that other people on your street will too. They retroactively did that analysis and found a huge correlation. We should do this type of correlation in alot more studies, particularly ones dedicated to trying to understand socioeconomic mobility. I say correlation because correlation is not causation. The causation we can't know right away but it might be helpful to first look at some significant correlations and then try to understand if there is a cause and effect relationship. Or at the very least come up with some likliehood statistics.