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This polling seems to work extremely hard to avoid noticing the elephant in the room: a company isn’t going to build a datacenter in the middle of Beverly Hills.
The data from the article seems to suggest that people in the top quartile of income resisted 14 DCs out of the 365 projects considered.
They then decided that that is a resistance rate of 14 / 365 * 100 = 3.836%.
Um. No.
The resistance rate is number resisted / number proposed for that income quartile. If only 14 were proposed in upper-income areas, and 14 were resisted, that would mean that the resistance rate for high income areas was 100%.
This polling seems to work extremely hard to avoid noticing the elephant in the room: a company isn’t going to build a datacenter in the middle of Beverly Hills.
The data from the article seems to suggest that people in the top quartile of income resisted 14 DCs out of the 365 projects considered.
They then decided that that is a resistance rate of 14 / 365 * 100 = 3.836%.
Um. No.
The resistance rate is number resisted / number proposed for that income quartile. If only 14 were proposed in upper-income areas, and 14 were resisted, that would mean that the resistance rate for high income areas was 100%.