Median household income (dollars)
AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
RI
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
HI
TX
FL
Complaints against what the makes sold would predict (1.0× = expected)
AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
RI
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
HI
TX
FL
left map: lower to higherright map: green fewer complaints than expected, red morefurthest from the pattern: IA, IL, KS, MT, NC, NE, NJ, NV, OR, PA, SD, VT, WYfewer than 10 complaints
This describes states, not any one car, and it does not show that the left measure produces the right one.
Every state with 10 or more complaints, most over-reported first: state, median household income (dollars), complaints against expected, complaints filed.
- DC 106,287 · 1.57× · 44
- OR 80,426 · 1.34× · 213
- NH 95,628 · 1.24× · 87
- WA 94,952 · 1.24× · 411
- VT 78,024 · 1.23× · 44
- HI 98,317 · 1.20× · 43
- NV 75,561 · 1.19× · 145
- CA 96,334 · 1.18× · 1789
- MT 69,922 · 1.18× · 48
- AK 89,336 · 1.14× · 32
- CT 93,760 · 1.13× · 177
- MA 101,341 · 1.11× · 312
- MD 101,652 · 1.09× · 339
- VA 90,974 · 1.08× · 454
- WY 74,815 · 1.08× · 19
- RI 86,372 · 1.06× · 42
- DE 82,855 · 1.06× · 52
- GA 74,664 · 1.03× · 444
- NC 69,904 · 1.03× · 441
- NY 84,578 · 1.02× · 675
- IN 70,051 · 1.01× · 211
- ID 74,636 · 1.00× · 60
- ME 71,773 · 1.00× · 60
- CO 92,470 · 0.99× · 270
- UT 91,750 · 0.98× · 106
- FL 71,711 · 0.98× · 897
- MN 87,556 · 0.96× · 173
- TX 76,292 · 0.95× · 948
- ND 75,949 · 0.95× · 18
- SC 66,818 · 0.95× · 194
- NJ 101,050 · 0.94× · 374
- WI 75,670 · 0.94× · 200
- LA 60,023 · 0.94× · 134
- OH 69,680 · 0.93× · 422
- AZ 76,872 · 0.90× · 255
- IL 81,702 · 0.89× · 397
- MO 68,920 · 0.89× · 193
- KY 62,417 · 0.89× · 125
- MI 71,149 · 0.88× · 364
- PA 76,081 · 0.86× · 436
- TN 67,097 · 0.86× · 211
- IA 73,147 · 0.85× · 76
- MS 54,915 · 0.85× · 68
- AL 62,027 · 0.84× · 142
- NM 62,125 · 0.82× · 60
- AR 58,773 · 0.78× · 79
- KS 72,639 · 0.76× · 71
- OK 63,603 · 0.71× · 87
- NE 74,985 · 0.69× · 39
- WV 57,917 · 0.60× · 43
- SD 72,421 · 0.41× · 11