Availability bias? The US is conveniently divided up into 50 chunks, and a lot of statistical information is aggregated at state level, so there’s a great convenience for researchers in dividing things up that way, whether it makes sense or not.
Current theme: default
Less Wrong (text)
Less Wrong (link)
Availability bias? The US is conveniently divided up into 50 chunks, and a lot of statistical information is aggregated at state level, so there’s a great convenience for researchers in dividing things up that way, whether it makes sense or not.