How do you build a healthy city? Copenhagen reveals its secrets

Re:How do you build a healthy city? Copenhagen reveals its s... by TheCoelacanth on Sunday February 11, 2018 @06:40PM (#16355473)

I think you are misreading your source. You seem to be interpreting it as saying that 8% of people in poverty are white, but what it actually says is that 8% of white people are in poverty.

Assuming that the poverty rate is evenly distributed over the white population, then the poverty rate for Scandinavians would also be 8%.

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Re:How do you build a healthy city? Copenhagen reveals its s... by protomyth on Sunday February 11, 2018 @06:50PM (#16355510)

I'm not misreading the source, else 100% of the people in North Dakota would be in poverty. The Native Americans are listed as 35% and that is not their percentage of the population.

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Re:How do you build a healthy city? Copenhagen reveals its s... by TheCoelacanth on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:36PM (#16360251)

Then why are you taking 8% of 10.7%? The correct way to interpret the statistics is not "10.7% of people are in poverty and 8% of those are white", it's "8% of white people are in poverty and that 8% overlaps with the 10.7% of all people who are in poverty".

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