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David__77

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2. Manhattan, yes; but there are plenty of poor people in NYC.

Reply to SixthSense (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 07:29 PM

Dec 2011

Brooklyn, Bronx, and Queens are the large majority of the city. And NYC is definitely less caucasian than the US average. I think that you'd need a rigorous regression analysis to impute causality, however. These articles encourage people to be flippant in thinking correlation = causation, and assuming the direction of causality.

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The Good (City) Life: Why New York's Life Expectancy Is the Highest in the Nation [View all] n2doc Dec 2011 OP

and the real reason SixthSense Dec 2011 #1

Manhattan, yes; but there are plenty of poor people in NYC. David__77 Dec 2011 #2

Ding ding ding -- we have a winner! Donnachaidh Dec 2011 #3

Funny they leave that out! Odin2005 Jan 2012 #4