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kleinbl00  ·  3182 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm a _____ (fill in the blank)

Not gonna lie, dude. I did a thunderous demographic analysis with veen's help when we sited the birth center. But before I put my faith in my own math (15-minute isochrones containing the highest number of white women 25-35 with some college education, from census data), I mapped out all the Whole Foods Markets.

100% correlation. Out of 150 midwives in LA, there are 4 that aren't within 10 minutes of a Whole Foods.

Then just to see, I looked for a negative correlation - I decided that Five Guys' market demographics probably overlapped the alternative birth community by coincidence at best.

0% correlation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/11/14/why-whole-foods-is-moving-into-one-of-the-poorest-neighborhoods-in-chicago/