@gmrshot Thank you for your suggestion! We ask authors to include references to support rationales. For future suggestions, we would greatly appreciate if you included references.
Can confirm validity via “Methods” section of: Residential Segregation - Black/White* | County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
https://www1.udel.edu/uapp800/Lecture%20Material/Index%20of%20Dissimilarity%20Example.htm
Is this acceptable?
Sorry, I just realized you said for future suggestions.
No worries. For the sake of example, I think it’d be helpful to share the type of references we’re looking for & discuss the one you shared. We look for references that are credible + specific to the content in the note. The one you shared is definitely credible. The only component of it missing is an explicit part of its passages that explicitly associates 100 with total segregation & 0 with perfect distribution.
So on the paper I shared, if you look at the paragraphgraph underneath Interpretation. The first and second lines state, “The index equals 0.0, indicating complete integration of the two sub-groups… opposite extreme is when the index equals 100.0, indicating complete segregation.” I will keep it in mind to point out the specific region of the citation to make it easier for the reviewer in the future, I realize it can be quite time-consuming to go through an entire paper for a single piece of information. There is also a nice Figure which I wish could be on the card to help visualize the information but I realize that copyright issues might prevent its integration.
You’re right. That flew over my head when I skimmed through it earlier. Can’t believe I didn’t see the figure either there too. It’d definitely be helpful to have in Extra but looking at Wikimedia Commons and OpenStax, it doesn’t look like there’s one similar enough to it on those two copyright-free sites