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I read this recent article by a reporter for the Washington Post, in which he recounts his visit to a place that he once called, "America's Worst Place To Live". This is a great example of how numbers, statistics, variables, etc., can be pulled together in a way that supposedly "ranks" places by some measure invented by a news organization or other entity... and those statistical profiles can leave the reader with a skewed and perhaps very incorrect visual image of that particular place. The reporter goes to visit the place he denigrated in an article... and learned some important things along the way. In essence, he learned about the geographical concepts of "site", "situation", and "place" by experiencing them first-hand. Well worth the read!
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