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Most common age among whites in U.S. is 58 – more than double that of minorities (pewresearch.org)
12 points by pseudolus on Oct 8, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Isn't this a dubious metric? Taking the tallest column of a histogram will yield different results depending on the size of the buckets. Redo it with blocks of 2 years and blocks of 6 months and I bet you'll get different results away from that particular age.

I feels it's mostly dependent on homogeneity.


True for every year of the last 58 years probably:

Most common age among whites: Whatever Boomers are right now




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