Is it based on a statistical metric of wealth in America — a true dividing line?
We compare this spatial proxy to a nightlights GDP per capita proxy developed by the World Bank in 2015 and provide a discussion highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of our approach and of using nightlights as a single metric for wealth in rural areas.
Home ownership rate is a proxy metric for wealth and political representation [ 33].
As a result, in spite of the wealth of landscape pattern metric indicators generated and evaluated over the past 20 years (McGarigal et al. 2009; McGarigal and Marks 1995; O'Neill et al. 1988, 1999; Utz et al. 2009; Uuemaa et al. 2009; Vogt et al. 2007), there are limited applications of these thresholds across geographic regions and ecosystem type.
We also found that ENM of agricultural suitability correlates with a metric of local wealth generation (Gross Domestic Product, Purchasing Power Parity).
Meanwhile, in the world of real social science, material wealth correlates strongly with just about every metric of human wellbeing you like, whether it be health, longevity, literacy, or self-reported life satisfaction.
We get that it's an incredibly effective way for generating mass wealth but it's not the only metric by which we measure how we behave to each other, and what society we build.
However, it is important to not immediately reduce these to differences in socioeconomic factors, as even the metric most closely aligned with wealth (per-capita GDP) had a minimal effect (Fig. 3) when compared to the effects of latitude.
Penn's metric of success tends to involve wealth, prestige, and fulfilling careers.
After examining some 4 million different med studies, the Chicago researchers found that for every $10 billion in wealth lost to a disease found by multiplying a metric known as the local disease burden by a country's wealth — the number of articles on that disease rose by 3 to 5percentt.
