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Comment by threeseed

No. The dataset [1] defines B as:

1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town

And not sure how anyone can argue the dataset is worthy of being included. It is pretty offensive and misguided at minimum to argue that having more black people in your neighbourhood will depress housing prices. And for it to be solely because they are black and not to do with a range of other factors e.g. socio-economic.

[1] http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/boston

parent threeseed 3 years ago

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