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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If you take the dots literally, the Census and/or the NYT believes that 50 white people live in a house just across the street from me, 50 Asians live on the same side of the block farther down, and 50 blacks live just around the corner. But no one lives on our side of the street. I don't think any of that is true.
So I wouldn't read them too literally.
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First, the dots are 25, not 50.
Second, it was specifically in response to your hypothesis that the dots were located at the epicenter of the various people's actual residence, which is an incorrect hypothesis. I was not taking the dots literally--that was Hank being Hank--nor was I suggesting that the dots were located based on any hidden data--that was you being you. In tracts where the population density allows, they located the dots (apparently) at random within the tract--I cannot actually assert is was for legibility, as in several locations a dot is directly under a street name and barely visible.
I await the admonition from the SPCA, PETA or both.
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