2/ EVERYTHING is gets more complicated / hair as you dig in > the US Census doesn’t exactly report data by zip code but by zip code tabulation area (ZCTA) for reasons that make sense but are too complicated to get into here.
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3/ ...and that's one reason for my politics. Politicians and wonks love to "see like a state" and pontificate from afar, but the closer you get to something the weirder and more complicated it is. Steel is not steel - it's a thousand varieties, in a thousand shapes, >
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4/ in a thousand locations. Crime stats are not crime stats - in one country the crime of X is defined as Y, in another it's defined as Z. Health stats are not health stats - in one country X is a live birth, in another it's a stillborn.
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5/ Dates are not dates https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/ …
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6/ Names are not names. Times are not times. Vote tallies are not votes. All "identical" level 3 workers in career field XYZ are not identical.
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