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Saturday, May 7, 2011

Was that u.s. news 10-best-transit cities list based on anything?

So I called [Danielle] Kurtzleben, the reporter who'd compiled it, to ask about her data sources and methodology. After five emails/tweets/phone calls over several weeks, I finally got her on the phone, at which point she said she couldn't remember exactly how she'd figured the data, except that it came from APTA and the NTD and that it was "very simple." I asked if she could email me the spreadsheet; she referred me to her editor, who said, bewilderingly, that U.S. News policy is to not share the data it gathers.


Human Transit Article Here! 
Human Transit: "ten best" rankings: the #1 way to confuse and disempower
Human Transit: portland: the lure of the unmeasurable

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