See a Random American

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A little project for America's 250th anniversaryThis is kind of the worst possible side project, because it sounds very unimpressive but it's actually pretty tricky. You would think, as I did, that because the American populace is one of the most heavily surveyed, most reliably censused people on earth, that generating demographically and statistically accurate random Americans would be fairly easy. For one or two variables, that's true. We have extremely good data on, for instance, the number of men versus the number of women in the country. But combining variables gets much harder because of the way probabilities intersect. For example, ~30% of people are Democrats and ~10% of people are f

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Website: a-random-american.github.io