NYC Rat Sightings (Daily)
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#3Who the hell has the free time to bother report rat sightings to 311.
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#4Who the hell has the free time to bother report rat sightings to 311.
Exactly -- this chart exhibits massive undercoverage bias for the actual proxy measure (number of daily rat sightings), except the skew in this case likely means the actual value is much higher.
Somehow, I'm thinking that this won't come as a surprise to any NYC resident.
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#5Who the hell has the free time to bother report rat sightings to 311.
Exactly -- this chart exhibits massive undercoverage bias for the actual proxy measure (number of daily rat sightings), except the skew in this case likely means the actual value is much higher. Somehow, I'm thinking that this won't come as a surprise to any NYC resident.
I was surprised when I visited to see piles of garbage left out on the sidewalks, seemingly with no purpose other than to breed rats.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly -- this chart exhibits massive undercoverage bias for the actual proxy measure (number of daily rat sightings), except the skew in this case likely means the actual value is much higher. Somehow, I'm thinking that this won't come as a surprise to any NYC resident.
I was surprised when I visited to see piles of garbage left out on the sidewalks, seemingly with no purpose other than to breed rats.
The purpose is so that garbage trucks can collect the trash. NYC has very few alleys.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly -- this chart exhibits massive undercoverage bias for the actual proxy measure (number of daily rat sightings), except the skew in this case likely means the actual value is much higher. Somehow, I'm thinking that this won't come as a surprise to any NYC resident.
I was surprised when I visited to see piles of garbage left out on the sidewalks, seemingly with no purpose other than to breed rats.
I think you're being sarcastic, but the purpose of leaving the garbage bins outside is so that the garbage trucks can pick them up, as their contract stipulates that they pick up from the sidewalk and not from inside the (numerous) buildings.
Even in the suburbs, residents of single-family houses typically need to bring their garbage/recycling bins to the end of their driveways. I think the only time that this isn't the case is when there's a special contract for certain isolated apartment buildings or complexes where the rubbish is stored in larger garbage dumps for the sanitation crews to pick up.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was surprised when I visited to see piles of garbage left out on the sidewalks, seemingly with no purpose other than to breed rats.
The purpose is so that garbage trucks can collect the trash. NYC has very few alleys.
Other large cities manage to have trash bins on wheels to collect trash without making it a garbagefest for the rats and other vermin.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was surprised when I visited to see piles of garbage left out on the sidewalks, seemingly with no purpose other than to breed rats.
I think you're being sarcastic, but the purpose of leaving the garbage bins outside is so that the garbage trucks can pick them up, as their contract stipulates that they pick up from the sidewalk and not from inside the (numerous) buildings. Even in the suburbs, residents of single-family houses typically need to bring their garbage/recycling bins to the end of their driveways. I think the only time that this isn't…
There is a difference between a garbage bin and a pile of garbage. NYC has piles of garbage bags just on the street.