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Seems like mostly statistical noise
by zeroonetwothree 3y ago
Seems like mostly statistical noise
- ghaff 3y agoCherry-picked data points combined with basically meaningless anecdotes. I'm sure there are some meaningful patterns overall but they're hard to reach conclusions absent a broader picture with percentages as well as absolute numbers over time.
- mmanfrin 3y agoA majority of these sort of posts seem to be mainly to generate clicks from people who have an axe to grind about California, they offer no real insights.
- dragonwriter 3y agoLiterally so: 2 of the 3 changes they highlight are "movement" within the margin of error on the estimates (in both cases, only a bit over half of the MOE). So just from sampling error, there is very low confidence that a change in the direction stated in the headline actually occurred. A responsible headline would be "More Californians moving to Florida", without mentioning the "changes" in California-to-Texas/Arizona flows, which from the data cannot reliably be said to have occurred.