<story><title>High degree of overlap between r/poor and crypto subreddits</title><url>https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/poor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>Note that if you reverse the direction, r&amp;#x2F;cryptocurrency has a much higher correlation to r&amp;#x2F;stockmarket, r&amp;#x2F;investing, r&amp;#x2F;fatfire, r&amp;#x2F;realestateinvesting, and r&amp;#x2F;collapse than to r&amp;#x2F;poor.  Same goes for r&amp;#x2F;bitcoin.  r&amp;#x2F;poor does not even make the list when viewed from the crypto subreddits.&lt;p&gt;I think this is simply that crypto subreddits are big, and so if you try to find the overlap between r&amp;#x2F;poor and anything else, a big subreddit will be high on the list.  Same reason that r&amp;#x2F;bayarea is high up on the overlap list for r&amp;#x2F;poor - at first glance, the assumption is that poor people live in the Bay Area, but then when you reverse that causality and look at what Bay Area people are interested in, r&amp;#x2F;fatfire, r&amp;#x2F;costco, r&amp;#x2F;realestate, and r&amp;#x2F;cscareerquestions are way higher than r&amp;#x2F;poor, which again doesn&amp;#x27;t make the list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cwkoss</author><text>There are only 7,157 subscribers to &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;poor&lt;p&gt;There are 194,177 subs in &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;coinbase and 3,780,323 in &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;bitcoin.&lt;p&gt;Given the low numbers and selection bias of subreddit membership, it seems hard to draw any meaningful conclusions.&lt;p&gt;If you assume everyone who subscribes to &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;poor is poor&lt;p&gt;AND everyone in &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;poor is also on crypto subreddits&lt;p&gt;AND crypto subreddit users are representative of broader populations (very tenuous assumptions), that means our lower bounds are:&lt;p&gt;- &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;coinbase is 3.7% poor&lt;p&gt;- &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;bitcoin is 0.2% poor&lt;p&gt;Both of those are well below the general poverty rate so... who cares?&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;poor subscribers probably are not a representative sample of poverty anyways, so these are pretty meaningless statistics.</text></comment>
<story><title>High degree of overlap between r/poor and crypto subreddits</title><url>https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/poor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>Note that if you reverse the direction, r&amp;#x2F;cryptocurrency has a much higher correlation to r&amp;#x2F;stockmarket, r&amp;#x2F;investing, r&amp;#x2F;fatfire, r&amp;#x2F;realestateinvesting, and r&amp;#x2F;collapse than to r&amp;#x2F;poor.  Same goes for r&amp;#x2F;bitcoin.  r&amp;#x2F;poor does not even make the list when viewed from the crypto subreddits.&lt;p&gt;I think this is simply that crypto subreddits are big, and so if you try to find the overlap between r&amp;#x2F;poor and anything else, a big subreddit will be high on the list.  Same reason that r&amp;#x2F;bayarea is high up on the overlap list for r&amp;#x2F;poor - at first glance, the assumption is that poor people live in the Bay Area, but then when you reverse that causality and look at what Bay Area people are interested in, r&amp;#x2F;fatfire, r&amp;#x2F;costco, r&amp;#x2F;realestate, and r&amp;#x2F;cscareerquestions are way higher than r&amp;#x2F;poor, which again doesn&amp;#x27;t make the list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cheriot</author><text>&amp;gt; I think this is simply that crypto subreddits are big, and so if you try to find the overlap between r&amp;#x2F;poor and anything else, a big subreddit will be high on the list.&lt;p&gt;These are the largest subreddits &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;frontpagemetrics.com&amp;#x2F;top&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;frontpagemetrics.com&amp;#x2F;top&lt;/a&gt;. There&amp;#x27;s not a lot of overlap.&lt;p&gt;For whatever demo visits r&amp;#x2F;poor, they have a significant interest in crypto.</text></comment>