Finding Correlations between the Really Rich and Ethnicity

Interpreting correlations is tricky. Use with caution.

Families With Income $125,000 to $149,999 is correlated with the log of (Ethnicity per capita):


Jews ............. 0.85
Russians ......... 0.82
West Indians ..... 0.76
Lithuanians ...... 0.75
Greeks ........... 0.69
Romanian ......... 0.68
Italian .......... 0.66
Ukrainian ........ 0.66
Portuguese ....... 0.62
Arab ............. 0.61
Austrian ......... 0.60
Hungarian ........ 0.57
Polish ........... 0.57
Canadian ......... 0.46
Slovak ........... 0.37
Yugoslavian ...... 0.26
Finnish .......... 0.16
Irish ............ 0.14
Belgian .......... 0.10
French .......... -0.04
Scottish ........ -0.05
Swedish ......... -0.14
Welsh ........... -0.20
Swiss ........... -0.22
Czech ........... -0.23
English ......... -0.25
Norwegian ....... -0.28
Danish .......... -0.29
German .......... -0.37
Scotch Irish .... -0.46
Dutch ........... -0.47


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