Ten Things You Might Not Know but Probably Should

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Ten things you should know if you're interested in the state of affairs in the USA.

At least a skim didn't reveal anything explicitly checked against the rest of the world.

This might be a meta question that’s unrelated to the topic, but is there a breakdown of the demographics and location of HN readers?

This is an example of a submission where I really wouldn't mind an editorialized title

Some of these are just looking at averages and nothing else.

7 - Mortgage rates have not increased in 40 years. Clearly mortgage rates in places people want to live have skyrocketed, and in places people don't want to live they've plummeted.

9 - Marriage rate is not historically low. This one is just flat out wrong... the rate is the lowest its been in 100 years.

9 was hilarious. ~60 percent of the shown graph was marriage rates increasing. Then they claimed that that 60% was a historical anomaly because the other 40% show it decreasing.

Yeah, try posting that to Reddit, you will get banned.

The rate of unarmed people killed by police has gone down, true. But that chart only shows the latest 5 years. It seems like historical context would be valuable. And if I recall, the sources for those numbers are disputable, as there is not a sanctioned body responsible for collecting and maintaining that data.

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