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I expected the differences to fall along rural/urban zip codes, but that's not true - there are significant differences in financial health in rural areas as we

by chiph 7y ago

I expected the differences to fall along rural/urban zip codes, but that's not true - there are significant differences in financial health in rural areas as well as urban areas (going by their chart). It's got to be cultural in some fashion.

lukego 7y ago
Or statistical noise. This is exactly what you would expect to see if the data were sliced up and compared using a loose significance threshold like 'p<0.05' instead of a tight one like 'p<(0.05/numberOfZipcodes)'. They don't seem to specify this? See also "Justify your alpha" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0311-x https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0311-x