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One could turn it around say that no middle-class people live in, say, Medina, WA (where BillG lives). Cost-of-living determines which class or classes get to l
by mikestew 7y ago
One could turn it around say that no middle-class people live in, say, Medina, WA (where BillG lives). Cost-of-living determines which class or classes get to live there, not the other way around. At the extreme, in a hypothetical neighborhood of $10MM NYC penthouses are you going to say $1MM/year is "middle-class"? If so, we simply aren't going to come anywhere close to agreement.
- danans 7y agoAny statistical analysis can have nonsense results if you choose a ridiculously biased sample. The US census has various methods for establishing a sensible subdivision of space for deriving statistics like this, including metropolitan areas, micropolitan areas, and combined statistical areas [1] The examples of Medina WA and penthouses in NYC don't fit any of those. 1. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/guidance-geographies/levels.html#par_textimage_5 https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/guid...