Or bus or train. While driving, one can talk on the phone. While sitting in a bus, one can read, sleep, text. Anything but talk on a phone. (Unless one is that rude)
That makes sense. Everyone who works in Elko lives, on average, half an hour outside the city. But then, how useful is this information. There must be plenty of housing close to jobs in Elko which make commuting a choice. As well, the commute in large Eastern cities is likely made up of public transportation and a couple of strolls. Not many options to shorten commuting times there.
Good stuff, but must be flawed in some way. A "heat map" that is not simply a population map. It clearly states its methodology and uses uncorrected US Census data.
My conclusion that it is flawed is best illustrated by focusing on Elko, NV. The maps says that the average round trip commute is 60 minutes. Dividing by two and generously allow for 80 miles per hour gives 40 miles one way. There is almost nothing that close to Elko. Let's assume that the distribution is severely bicameral: half the people have almost no commute and the others drive two hours per day. There would still be nothing to commute to. Reno, NV and Salt Lake City, UT are three hours away, one way.
For the younger Neatoramanauts: In the days before digital anything, these charts were based on reported sales from retail outlets and song requests to radio stations. In my little hometown, that meant one record shop and one radio station. so the results were easily manipulated by labels with money to spend.
Serling grew up in Binghamton, NY. That area used to get cloud cover so thick that it difussed sunlight to the degree that no shadows were cast. He used outdoor floodlight to get the same effect when filming. (Yes, I lived there. Yes, it is just as creepy in real life as on the show.)
My conclusion that it is flawed is best illustrated by focusing on Elko, NV. The maps says that the average round trip commute is 60 minutes. Dividing by two and generously allow for 80 miles per hour gives 40 miles one way. There is almost nothing that close to Elko. Let's assume that the distribution is severely bicameral: half the people have almost no commute and the others drive two hours per day. There would still be nothing to commute to. Reno, NV and Salt Lake City, UT are three hours away, one way.
(Sorry for the original misspelling.)
That changed in the early 1990s with SoundScan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_SoundScan
Will the madness ever end!
Let us see if this link works right.
Yep.
It is almost as if the author used Neatorama as his source material.