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Originally Posted by ebarker
It is simply a way to perform assessment. If the analysis is good enough for us all to do our job then it probably doesn't matter. It is mostly driven by the ease of getting institutionally produced reliable data.
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Would it be feasible to calculate the results on a county-by-county basis?
Some larger states may have a large metropolitan area which "carries" the state, while leaving a lot of suburban or rural areas under-served. By using county lines as the boundary for analysis, we can more easily find under-served regions without worrying about a metropolitan area carrying a state. Except for a small number of extraordinarily large counties in the Rockies, having one FRC team per county wouldn't be too far of a commute for its members.