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NYC certainly got hit bad, but I wouldn't say it's the only badly hit city. Here is deaths/total pop for some other cities >1mil population which I would also c
by rovolo 6y ago
NYC certainly got hit bad, but I wouldn't say it's the only badly hit city. Here is deaths/total pop for some other cities >1mil population which I would also call "hit hard".
NYC: 1.07‰
New Orleans: 0.65‰
Detroit: 0.60‰
Boston: 0.44‰
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/upshot/coronavirus-metro-area-tracker.html#metro-maps https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/upshot/corona...
- legolas2412 6y agoI think you're off by a factor of 10 in your numbers
- rovolo 6y agoI'm using the per-mille (‰) rather than per-cent (%) symbol. Sorry for the confusion, but it's a more convenient unit for these quantities. This is how it'd look in percentages: NYC: 0.107% New Orleans: 0.065% Detroit: 0.060% Boston: 0.044% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mille https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mille
- legolas2412 6y agoAhh, today i learned
- JPKab 6y agoI've never seen that notation in my entire life. Learn something new every day. Just want to point out that you didn't call that out explicitly. 99% (note that it's a percent) of people who saw your comment would see it and view it as a percent. I did, and I work with data all day every day. It's unintentionally misleading to use notation like that without calling it out. Just type "per mille" next time.
- rovolo 6y agoYou're right, I should have called it out in the text. I thought ‰ was okay because I was comparing the other cities to NYC, not to an absolute value. Also, I think it's a fun symbol, and I want more english speakers to use it.