Re:How well does population density predict U.S. voting outc...
by madcaptenor on Friday August 31, 2018 @02:11PM
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I think it would be interesting to see the results of regressing vote against population density + racial makeup.
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Re:How well does population density predict U.S. voting outc...
by jake-low on Friday August 31, 2018 @02:17PM
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I agree. The vote dataset doesn't have demographic breakdowns (I believe it was created by scraping post-election reports on _The Guardian_, not by relying on exit polls). But you compare the prediction errors to county-level data on race (the Census Bureau publishes these numbers) and pose the question "is the population-density model more wrong in areas of higher diversity?"