Malmquist bias[0] for neighborhood music!

It would be hard to find that correlation because you can’t get a base rate. I don’t think you can measure the distance, so you don’t know if it’s loud or close. Maybe there’s no correlation independent of the music taste of the neighborhood.

Lots of Spanish doesn’t surprise me. It’s a neighborhood that’s still largely Mexican, and Latin Pop is really big in the US in general.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmquist_bias

I used to go build houses in Tijuana with a charity, and invariably, some neighbor would see us building, and come out with some speakers to absolutely blast mariachi. Always followed up by a wave or a thumbs up, implicit that an objective net improvement had just been deployed.

The Mission has a lot of Latin American restaurants, bars and nightclubs that attract a Spanish-speaking clientele (or people who want to meet Spanish speakers) from outside the neighborhood. And the neighborhood itself is around a third Spanish-speaking.

I think there’s definitely a bias towards songs that you’re going to blast from your car with the windows down. As someone decades away from that stage of life, it would be unlikely that anything that I listen to would show up in the lists (and, in fact, skimming over a couple days’ songs, there were only three songs I recognized, although a few more artists).

I don't know what a "surprisingly high" number is - but the mission is about 1/3 Spanish speaking as far as I can tell[1].

[1] It's hard actually, but this language diversity data(https://www.sf.gov/data/san-francisco-language-diversity-dat...) says there are ~20k speakers and this district population breakdown (https://www.sfgov.org/ccsfgsa/current-san-francisco-supervis...) says there are ~67k residents