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Only loosely related: I wonder what the population pyramid looks like filtered for high-status people (or filtered for many other relevant dimensions like income or education). The ability to predict the the share of the population with certain attrubutes seems valuable.

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Are you thinking more about categorical, indexical or continous data? But anyway I agree that it would help. And with more data we could move beyond simplistics hypothetical models like Scott Alexander's Zebra stripes:https://slatestarcodex.com/...

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