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We expanded it out further and made a whole post out of it. Thank you for the suggestions. Take a look: https://www.grid.news/story/economy/2023/03/16/why-are-eggs-still-so-expensive/

Sure! It’s basically an estimate of all the assets that a university has. The key thing to note is that not all of these assets can be used the way these universities want because donors can place restrictions on how their cash is to be spent.

Universities essentially have trust funds - it's the money that alumni and others have given over the years to the university. The university then invests that money to grow but also uses it to finance things like financial aid.

I thought this was a graph representing the housing market

So what I'm hearing is that it's permissible as long as the victim is an asshole?

Thanks for the suggestion! The database I used weirdly didn’t have any info on student body size, but once I track down a decently sized one I’ll try to make that chart.

Non murican here. Could you explain what endowment means?

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That’s the power of media.

Until they break down and contaminate the water with micro plastic. :(

Hey OP, nice visual!! I wonder if it might look different if you used endowment per student vs admit rate? I’ve heard that portions of the endowment are restricted so that Yales endowment per student is actuallly larger than Harvards, etc.

Hoh, then you'll love how a reporter was fired for speaking against DeSantis. Idiot.

You could argue it was a downward trend until 2017 or so followed by an increase since then. I don’t know how well that might match with any changes in legislation though…

Broken clocks who will now spend the rest of their lives convinced that their own interpretation of "common sense" is relevant in the face of a complex issue with limited evidence.

Instead of waiting for evidence, they picked the solution that put accessible scapegoats in their hometowns. That turned into actual violence and vandalism.

It was not based in rationality or a desire for truth, it was based in a desire to find a simple explanation that agreed with their biases and allowed them to feel like they had control over something they did not.

I wouldn't say "extremely unlikely random combination of viruses leading to a pandemic" considering that is exactly what happened a few years prior with the SARS-CoV-1 virus. And we have evidence of it being a spill over event based on early cases surrounding the markets of Wuhan. The truth is we don't know right now what the origin was.

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No that's not what I'm asking at all you snarky ass. The other answer is probably the correct one, that being the average for that day historically.

I was assuming a cumulative average or even a moving average was being used and if that were the case then there should not be a scenario where adding a current measurement that is lower than the average would actually raise the average. If I need to point you to the actually moment where this happens, I will be happy to.

You've changed my mind, I am now very interested in what's going on here. I will deep dive after work. What is going on with the price of turkey?

Sources

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment

Tools

R

I made this so I could learn how to use R and it took me waaay longer than I thought it would to make this.

I actually expected there to be a higher correlation between endowment and acceptance rate, but I guess that's just not the case. That being said, the amount of cash these universities have is insane, but what the top 4 has is just beyond nuts...

Hmmm... I wouldn't have expected a downward trend.

Correct. 0 avian flu cases at their facilities. Prices jacked up in some cases 100-200% from the previous year with essentially 0 purpose other than they could

Source: Federal Rail Association (https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/publicsite/query/TenYearAccidentIncidentOverview.aspx) DM me for the .csv file. Data is available from 1975 to 2022.

Tool: Basic Plot in R

The plot shows total hazmat train derailment from 1997 to 2022 in the United States. The total derailment is divided by the total number of miles driven by trains for that year.

The lowest hazmat derailment per total train miles was in 1986 at 79.6 hazmat derailments/10 million miles (450 total that year). Notably , the total employee hours worked has been steadily decreasing since 1975. I am unable to tell whether there has been an increase or decrease in derailments due to changes in regulation.

Yep. I paid $7.69 for a dozen Grade A Large brown eggs last night. The white ones were $7.99. Usually the brown ones are more expensive.

Wasn't Cal-Maine the ones telling their investors their chickens weren't actually affected at all by the flu and they just jacked up prices because they could?