Comment on Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs
Malgas@beehaw.org 1 week ago
I’m sufficiently unfamiliar with New York that I had to look it up, but Rochester and Tribeca appear to be at opposite ends of the state and are presumably not served by the same physical Target store. Displaying the actual price at a location near you seems completely reasonable to me, if that’s what they’re doing.
But yes, there should be a mandate to explain what data is being used and how.
aramis87@fedia.io 1 week ago
Tribeca is a neighborhood in Manhattan. Everything in Manhattan is more expensive, simply because of the cost to rent the store. [Not denying there are other factors, but that will be a big one, simply because Manhattan cannot grow outward any more.]
Rochester is a large city in the north of New York State, on the banks of Lake Ontario. It has plenty of room to grow out - and it's surrounded by rural counties. Eggs are cheaper there simply because there are more chickens and less humans than there are near Manhattan.
Again, there are unfortunately other factors in play. But surely they could've used a better example than the price of eggs in two such disparate parts of the state?