Now I more fully understand/appreciate the QoL messaging I've seen on social media this past year. Quite interesting.
How will I break the big negative coefficient for Forest Coverage to my "tree-hugger" friends?
But I do have a straight forward question: might Arts/Culture face similar measurement & correlation challenge to those you mention/hypothesize -and afflict- Worship Places? That is, their scale/count is not 'standardized', so to speak.
The tree issue is almost certainly due simply to large federally held lands. People like trees, but in many counties, the presence of large federal lands just swamps everything else. Moreover, 'tree covered' may include much of Nevada.
On the second point, we are working on better measuring these amenities. When we use share of people in congregations from the American Religious Data Archives, the effect becomes trivially small. We are working with partners to web scrape data on some of the private amenities, and hope that we can soon be able to tell the difference between the Smithsonian and the Spam Museum (which might be great).
Now I more fully understand/appreciate the QoL messaging I've seen on social media this past year. Quite interesting.
How will I break the big negative coefficient for Forest Coverage to my "tree-hugger" friends?
But I do have a straight forward question: might Arts/Culture face similar measurement & correlation challenge to those you mention/hypothesize -and afflict- Worship Places? That is, their scale/count is not 'standardized', so to speak.
The tree issue is almost certainly due simply to large federally held lands. People like trees, but in many counties, the presence of large federal lands just swamps everything else. Moreover, 'tree covered' may include much of Nevada.
On the second point, we are working on better measuring these amenities. When we use share of people in congregations from the American Religious Data Archives, the effect becomes trivially small. We are working with partners to web scrape data on some of the private amenities, and hope that we can soon be able to tell the difference between the Smithsonian and the Spam Museum (which might be great).