Hi everyone, thank you to everyone who left constructive feedback! As I mentioned I’m always working on improving and take these comments into consideration. It’s clear this map has ruffled feathers and I wanted it to be known that I see the points people are making. I hope people can continue to be kind to one another in the comments because that’s how healthy discussion happens. Thanks again everyone!

For a teacher who does an average of one hour of work each day after they get home it’s about $31/hour. Just saying. And $45k is the low end of what teachers get paid in my area.

I am a teacher. Not criticizing, just saying that $45k isn’t terrible in all cases.

Skill self evaluation charts usually look like this, trending towards a positive skew with the peak around 6.8-7.3 unless it’s a contentious/controversial question like “how good do you fuck” or “how good of a partner are you”.

Certain regions within the city are more dangerous for a young black man than if he were serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. Areas like Auburn Gresham, Austin, Garfield Park, etc. are literally warzones with 10x the per capita homicide rate of the city as a whole. It's pretty hand wavy to point at rural counties where the homicide rate can swing a lot by having one more or fewer murder per year when these areas with a similar population to the rural county are dropping 40+ bodies a year in a few block radius.

This looks like too many degrees of freedom.

How much better does this perform over linear?

University of Florida is currently a Top 5 public university.

I only see 5 Chinese companies in that picture.

But it's illegal and impossible to purchase a handgun across state lines, so that's entirely pointless to bring up.

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What’s a rack?

Each year

Sorry to see so many turds in here dumping on you. Good work! But a lot of the critical questions are valid. Namely private vs public and do you average by number of students at each school? Also, these numbers look like yearly numbers to me, not per semester.

Lucky you!

The question was "how do you compare yourself to others". Yet, the graph is not normally distributed but skewed to positive responses.

Unless the survey happened to pick an abnormally large group of the best present givers, it means that the people responding are overrating themselves.

They can't all be amazing!

There are fees to cover administrative costs, gyms, student activities, campus medical service, busses, things like that.

It is surprising. The proper response is not to call it crap, but to do your own research and present better data if you find it.

No! You could stay at home. No rent and the food is only a marginal difference. Costs are costs!

No. It’s not. As a parent or student you care about all costs the same. The dollars you pay to the school for tuition and fees are the same as the dollars you pay for the dorm, apartment, grocery store, restaurant and everything else.

Because they are better schools and states. There really is a correlation between intelligence and progressiveness.

What if we intentionally choose terrible gifts for the humor? So a terrible gift is actually an excellent gift?

Why the fuque is this being downvoted?? People without a sense of humor?

What is your read on the story? Curious, and just wanting a bit more context, if you were willing to provide.

Not always. Some now charge more for engineering and computer science because the demand is so great.

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Generally universities charge a flat tuition fee for a full load, anything over 12 semester hours (typically each LAS class meets 3 hours a week for 3 sem hours, 4 or 5 for engineering in my experience). But some, like my alma mater the University of Illinois, now charge a surcharge for popular or expensive majors like engineering.

Junior/community colleges generally charge a rate per semester hour.

Used GAM since the relationship is nonlinear.