The numbers behind the story
The Frisconian
San Francisco Data as of October 16, 2026
The Great Highway, counted every reasonable way
Our story of October 16 picked one way to count each number. Here are the other reasonable ways, and what each one shows. Every row uses the same city data as the story.
The story, October 16, 2026: Sunset sales tax grew 2.5% after the Great Highway fully closed, behind most of the city .
How to read this page
Each row is one way to count the same thing. We fixed the choices before we ran them, and every combination is here.
The dot is the estimate. For a ratio, 1 means no change and 2 means twice as many. For a difference in points, 0 means no change.
The bar is the range the true value most likely falls in (95%).
The p-value says how often a gap this big would turn up by chance alone, if nothing had changed. Below 0.05 is a common line, not a law.
Read the pattern across the rows. One row, picked alone, can be made to say almost anything.
This page draws its rows with JavaScript. The numbers are in grid.json .
How this was counted
Missing a reasonable way to count it? Write to contact@thefrisconian.com . If it holds up, we add it for everyone.