2 Preface

We can start with the question: “in the United States, is there a relationship between unemployment in an area and how long people live?”

2.0.1 The original story

In a short piece here, Nicky Forster of the Associated Press explained the relationship between demographics and life expectancy with sentences like “an increase of 10 percentage points in the unemployment rate in a neighborhood translated to a loss of roughly a year and a half of life expectancy, the AP found.”

Welcome to linear regression!