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I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.
If you put enough junk variables in a regression equation, one of them is bound to meet the threshold for statistical significance just by chance.
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
San Francisco’s version of rent control lacks vacancy controls, which means landlords can re-set rents at whatever the market will bear when new rent-controlled tenants move in.
The logic is that with vacancy controls, landlords won’t invest in maintaining their properties. But the flipside is that the landlord also has a strong financial incentive to evict longstanding tenants who are paying below-market rates.
So every decade during a boom, there is a tragic, elderly face for the story of displacement.
How Burrowing Owls Lead to Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) – TechCrunch
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