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LFKhael t1_jad8c3e wrote

This feels like it's incredibly biased towards North America or the anglosphere.

We're ranked higher than Shenzhen, Tokyo, and Berlin.

Uhhh, no. I love Philly, but any metric that puts us ahead of them has some major flaws.

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ColdJay64 OP t1_jad9732 wrote

Here's a further explanation of how they rank cities: https://www.schroders.com/en/schrodersglobalcities/blog/global-cities-index/

I don't think it's bias so much as the methodologies used, but I could be wrong. For example, Shenzen has a 28 out of 30 "environmental" rating.

The interactive globe tool is pretty cool. The data gets pretty granular but it takes some clickthroughs. It's probably what I should've shared in the first place.

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LFKhael t1_jadaejp wrote

> Physical risk

Okay, Philly is a damn good city for that. We get almost no disastrous weather, and we're too far removed from the Atlantic to get a proper punch from a hurricane. We're also pretty high above sea level.

> Policy risk

Eh, I guess.

> Median household income

That must be a low weight.

> GDP

There's the NA bias, we basically print money due to the post ww2 power structure.

> Transport

Yeah we got PHL, 30th St station, Septa RR, Septa BSL/MFL, and PATCO. We're a minor port, though.

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flamehead2k1 t1_jadk861 wrote

>> Policy risk > >Eh, I guess.

Policy risk for investors is high in places like Shenzen. Capital controls and CCP influence is high.

Berlin less so but strong organized labor is a potential policy risk.

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flamehead2k1 t1_jadfh3n wrote

>I don't think it's bias so much as the methodologies used, but I could be wrong. For example, Shenzen has a 28 out of 30 "environmental" rating.

Bias absolutely can exist in methodology

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