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Point notwithstanding, this article says that its own title is wrong: "Non-college whites over 50 are a minority of the electorate".
by nickm12 5y ago
Point notwithstanding, this article says that its own title is wrong: "Non-college whites over 50 are a minority of the electorate".
- teraflop 5y agoThat doesn't in any way mean the title is wrong. Any group will look like a minority if you narrow it down enough, regardless of how close that group is to the average of the population. By analogy, it's accurate to say that the US median household income is $67,521, even though the number of people who make exactly that many dollars per year is probably quite small.
- nickm12 5y agoTechnically, you can define a median for ordinal data, like age and household income. Median for categorical data like college education and race is mostly nonsensical, except maybe you could say that a median only exists if there is a category that has more than 50% of population. I still think the title is misleading.