Rating places: a statistical exploration

This paper suggests an alternative procedure to the rating of places according to the assumption that averaging data on a number of different criteria presents a valid representation of a general pattern.
Johnston

Rating places: a statistical exploration

Ron Johnston

University of Bristol

Introduction

The UK media frequently carries headlines such as these:

A proper oasis of friendliness in grim north: that’s Burnley

(The Times, 13 October 2016, p. 23)

Cambridge gets a first for quality of life

(The Times, 16 November 2016, p. 24)

They are derived from exercises, most of them conducted by either think-tanks or commercial organisations,1devised to depict variations across the country in various aspects of economic and social well-being, from which the media constructs ‘league tables’ identifying the ‘best and worst performing places’. (Thus, for...

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