re: Mountain View
You might have noticed how I ended my post:
I don't know where you live, or what neighborhoods you frequent, but maybe, just maybe, it doesn't represent the vast majority of this country. Then again, I'm not pretending my neighborhood does either.
I'm not an idiot, Robert. I'm well aware I don't live in a typical area. But the people who ride buses are still the people who ride buses.
The numbers are what they are, and I don't think someone channeling Steinbeck and somehow reading people's souls and lives from their expressions is that much of a counterbalance to that.
Anecdotal evidence is still anecdotal evidence, and frankly, it's usually used by people and news writers who are losing the argument on any rational or quantitative front.