“I think that the analysis was manipulated so that certain towns and cities would look really good, while others were hidden. . . . Boston doesn’t look so good, so you merge it with Newton and Cambridge - the two wealthiest towns in MA.”
Again, you seem not to understand how MSAs work. Newton and Cambirdge are part of the Boston MSA as defined by the Census Bureau. It wasn’t an arbitrary decision, much less any form of manipulation, for this survey to include Newton and cambridge in the Boston MSA. That was the Census Bureau’s decision, and it was made in the basis of objective criteria, not on a whim. Newton and Cambridge are oart id the Boston MSA because objective criteria tell us they’re closely integrated with Boston economically, socially, and institutionally. It would be arbitrary and manipulative to exclude them from the Boston MSA. That’s why the Census Bureau didn’t exclude, and following the densus Bureau’s lead, neither did this survey.