Lessons from the Bubble Quiz #2: The bubbliest zip codes for growing up
I continue my exploration of the scores for the bubble quiz that have been registered on the NewsHour website, now numbering more than 50,000.
If you want your child to grow up clueless about mainstream white America, what are the zip codes that have the best track record?
And the winner is… zip code 10023.
To answer that question, I used the 50,464 cases with a score on the bubble quiz and the zip code where the person lived at age 10 that were available as of yesterday morning when I started this exercise. I asked my statistical software to calculate the median bubble score for every zip code represented in those 50,464 cases. Since I couldn’t make any judgments about zip codes that were represented by just a few people, I chose 10 as the lower limit of scores that I would examine more closely. There’s still a lot of room for oddball results with a sample size of 10, but this procedure gave me a useful starting point for examining patterns.
