> The rise of inequality over the last four decades has created two very different Americas, and life is a lot harder in one of them.<p>This would be a fascinating appendix for Charles Murray's book <i>Coming Apart</i>. If you liked this article, you might enjoy his quiz about which of these two Americas you are likely to live in: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/white-educated-and-wealthy-congratulations-you-live-in-a-bubble/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/white-educated-and-wealt...</a> (Edit: I scored 46 and the description is completely accurate: "A first-generation upper-middle-class person with middle-class parents")
These results are pretty much exactly what you would expect -- people who are struggling aren't likely to be googling for luxury items -- and I would venture to guess that they would be fairly similar even if The Upshot used only income, or only education level, rather than a blend of six metrics, to determine "hard" and "easy" counties to live in.<p>What I find especially intriguing are some of the explanations Leonhardt posits, which presume a causal link and attempt to suggest what that cause is. That's part of the reason why I enjoy running Correlated.org -- it's fun to try to guess what the connection might be between two seemingly unrelated things.<p>But let's remember: Not all correlations entail a causal link. (I prefer that way of putting it over "Correlation does not imply causation," because correlation does <i>imply</i> causation ... it's just that it often wrongly implies it.)
<p><pre><code> There is evidence of the nation’s cultural divide in the results,
with “Zoolander” (a 2001 movie starring Ben Stiller) and Vengaboys
(a Dutch dance-pop band) popular in the easiest places and Kenneth
Nixon, of the rock band Framing Hanley, popular in the hardest
places."
</code></pre>
Vengaboys, huh?<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zbi0XmGtMw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zbi0XmGtMw</a><p>Are the easiest places to live in the TV advertising markets of Six Flags, by any chance?
nb-4l<p>If this is the #3 search term, the data must be thin. Anyone familiar with this dataset want to chime in? I have a similar camera that is used pretty often and I couldnot even recognize the name without a google search. Did I just get lucky by buying 2x nb-6l ? maybe the nb-4l is really a pain point? Maybe some users of the elph series have real issues with this thing?