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If you interpolate between the 1970 and 1980 points, mid-1972 would be fairly close to Belleville, Illinois - where, in mid-1972, I was born. ...thus confirmin
by matthucke 12y ago
If you interpolate between the 1970 and 1980 points, mid-1972 would be fairly close to Belleville, Illinois - where, in mid-1972, I was born.
...thus confirming my long-held belief that I am the center of the universe.
- mpyne 12y agoAnother notable result of the 1980 census was that it was the first one where the majority of Americans lived west of the Mississippi River.
- mattst88 12y agoDistance, as well as population, is a factor in the mean center of population. Even today there isn't close to a majority of the population living west of the Mississippi.
- mpyne 12y agoGood point, I only wish I'd seen it in time to fix my comment.
- hollerith 12y agoNot true[1]. Perhaps the "population center of mass" is west of the Mississippi, but that is a different statistic. [1] http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_it_the_population_west_of_the_Mississippi_river_versus_east_of_the_Mississippi http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_it_the_population_west_of_the...
- raldi 12y agoAs an example of how this could be possible, imagine the population of the USA were 3: two people living in East St. Louis, and one person living in Hawaii.
- inportb 12y agoIt would be fun to actually compute the center of mass, knowing that people are not uniformly massive.
- ekimekim 12y agoA good starting point might be average weight statistics on a per-state level. I doubt you could get any finer-grained information though.
- clamprecht 12y agoOr that you're completely average :)
- parennoob 12y ago<joke> The fact that you so naturally extrapolate "being the center of the United States" to "being the center of the Universe" also confirms a long-held belief of mine about the average American. </joke>