Back in the USA
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2022-07-07
Some things I noticed in the neighborhood:
– Some dude driving an official (I assume) truck of some kind along the path in the park. It looks like some kinda street sweeper thing but of course all it’s doing is making a lot of noise, belching smoke, and spewing dust into the air. We see these things all the time, also in the fall the leafblowers on campus where some dude is carrying a large loud device, polluting, and chasing 2 leaves around into the air.
– The streets are really wide! Riverside Drive is 6 lanes wide plus a median, Broadway is 8 lanes plus a median, even the narrowest streets are 3 lanes wide. That all takes up a lot of space.
– Police cars. Not a bunch all in one place, they just come by with a high frequency. I saw two today after just being outside for a few minutes.
– Also of course the usual pleasant sight of people strolling on the sidewalks.