• marcos@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I imagine there’s some confounding variable that is highly correlated to car ownership.

    Maybe zip code.

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      16 days ago

      Zip code, income, race, age, social consciousness, climate consciousness…so many variables that are highly correlated to car ownership

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        15 days ago

        Well, income is controlled for, so it’s not that.

        I doubt any kind of consciousness has that degree of correlation. People that live in a situation that demands a car get a car, people with good alternatives get way fewer cars, mostly independently on how they thing. (My guess is that consciousness correlates much better to car model than to the car/no car choice.)