Oddities that defy conventional wisdom - POPULATION edition

[kalvado]

What?  No.  They are mostly flour with some sugar and oil, just like other cakes and sweet breads.

Sweetbreads are a meat.

Questionable meat.

Delicious, questionable meat.

TIL...
You can grow sourdough starter on different flours, resulting in different flavors. Starter grown on amaranth flour smells like ham...

[Rothman]

What?  No.  They are mostly flour with some sugar and oil, just like other cakes and sweet breads.

Sweetbreads are a meat.

Questionable meat.

Delicious, questionable meat.

TIL...
You can grow sourdough starter on different flours, resulting in different flavors. Starter grown on amaranth flour smells like ham...

Mmmmmm...piggy bread...

[kkt]

What?  No.  They are mostly flour with some sugar and oil, just like other cakes and sweet breads.

Sweetbreads are a meat.

Questionable meat.

Delicious, questionable meat.

TIL...
You can grow sourdough starter on different flours, resulting in different flavors. Starter grown on amaranth flour smells like ham...

Wow, I had no idea the flour could make such a big difference.

[bing101]

Here is an interesting list on cities by Geography King. 

[golden eagle]

Jefferson Parish, LA (441K) is larger than Orleans Parish (384K), though Orleans is the nucleus of the New Orleans metro area. This happened after Orleans Parish was hit by Hurricane Katrina.



 

[kphoger]

Granted, I haven't been to any of these three states, but...

Does it surprise anyone else that Florida has a higher population density than both Ohio and Pennsylvania?  By quite a margin, too:  Florida is more than one-third more dense than Pennsylvania.

(It also surprises me that no US state's population density falls between those two:  according to Wikipedia, there is no US state with a population density between 300 and 400 per sq mi.)

[tmoore952]

Granted, I haven't been to any of these three states, but...

Does it surprise anyone else that Florida has a higher population density than both Ohio and Pennsylvania?  By quite a margin, too:  Florida is more than one-third more dense than Pennsylvania.

(It also surprises me that no US state's population density falls between those two:  according to Wikipedia, there is no US state with a population density between 300 and 400 per sq mi.)

No it doesn't surprise me from a Pennsylvania perspective. If you drew a line from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, and then continued that line to go from Philadelphia to Scranton, and then visited 99% of the land north and west of that line (population very sparse in many places), it wouldn't surprise anyone.

[Scott5114]

I think what makes it surprising is that so much of Florida is uninhabited swamp land. Most of mainland Monroe County is entirely devoid of people.

I guess central Florida and the Atlantic coast must be really, really dense to balance it out.

[kphoger]

(It also surprises me that no US state's population density falls between those two:  according to Wikipedia, there is no US state with a population density between 300 and 400 per sq mi.)

Here's the breakdown:

8 states = greater than 400 per sq mi
0 states = between 300 and 400 per sq mi
7 states = between 200 and 300 per sq mi
11 states = between 100 and 200 per sq mi
24 states = less than 100 per sq mi

[formulanone]

I think what makes it surprising is that so much of Florida is uninhabited swamp land. Most of mainland Monroe County is entirely devoid of people.

I guess central Florida and the Atlantic coast must be really, really dense to balance it out.

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[tmoore952]

Continuity here will be completely lost since I'm responding to a post in a different thread -- but I'm following the rules or conventions, such as they are.

In the geographic thread, it was mentioned that Helsinki has more people than Iceland.

I've been to Iceland, when you go to the east of Reykjavik which is on the west coast, there are not many people.

[Rothman]

Continuity here will be completely lost since I'm responding to a post in a different thread -- but I'm following the rules or conventions, such as they are.

In the geographic thread, it was mentioned that Helsinki has more people than Iceland.

I've been to Iceland, when you go to the east of Reykjavik which is on the west coast, there are not many people.

Doesn't seem to be much of an oddity.

[tmoore952]

Continuity here will be completely lost since I'm responding to a post in a different thread -- but I'm following the rules or conventions, such as they are.

In the geographic thread, it was mentioned that Helsinki has more people than Iceland.

I've been to Iceland, when you go to the east of Reykjavik which is on the west coast, there are not many people.

Doesn't seem to be much of an oddity.

To be clear -- it is not my oddity -- it was Poiponen13's in the geographic thread.

It only wound up being discussed here because Poiponen13 got yelled at for putting a population stat in the geographic thread.

If you want the original poster of that to see it, you may need to post your comment there.

[GaryV]

Continuity here will be completely lost since I'm responding to a post in a different thread -- but I'm following the rules or conventions, such as they are.

In the geographic thread, it was mentioned that Helsinki has more people than Iceland.

I've been to Iceland, when you go to the east of Reykjavik which is on the west coast, there are not many people.

Doesn't seem to be much of an oddity.

It's not - there are quite a few places in the world that have a population higher than Iceland. Six counties in Michigan alone have a higher population than Iceland, and the 7th is pretty close.

But when has logic been a P13 strongpoint?

[bwana39]

Jefferson Parish, LA (441K) is larger than Orleans Parish (384K), though Orleans is the nucleus of the New Orleans metro area. This happened after Orleans Parish was hit by Hurricane Katrina.

Jefferson parish had always been less than 10% less populous than Orleans, about 30K difference before Katrina / Rita.

I would agree that from the commercial and tourist POV, that New Orleans is the hub.

While New Orleans does not expand outside of Orleans Parish, Metairie is an unincorporated area in Jefferson Parish that is functionally part of NOLA itself. Metairie alone has around 150K. I guess, my point is it may be counter intuitive, but looking at Jefferson Parish as suburban really doesn't fit.

[bing101]

[NWI_Irish96]

Always a fun video when my employer is a central focus of the topic.

Fun fact: one department at my office is the one that processes municipal boundary changes. Every year, they ask all municipalities whether or not their boundaries have changed. If they have, the municipalities send us maps and legal references, and we update everything. In most states, they use our geographical units (tracts/blocks) to define their changes legally, which makes things much easier for us. If not, it takes a bit more work to get everything right. Once it's all done, the next decennial census and the next annual population estimate will automatically include the new area.