Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Group Size Units to Adult Ratios

[Rosa Leah (rcarson]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Elizabeth Stevenson wrote:

> A ratio is a division problem. 
> 
> 25/35=~.714 adults per household
> 
> 43/53=~.811
> 
> So you have a slightly higher ratio of adults to households. However,
> at the Madison, WI group, the ratio is 17/28=~.607, so they have fewer
> adults per household. This doesn't take children into account at all.

Aren't these numbers backwards if the goal is to determine number of
adults per household?

It should be 35/25 (ie, 35 individuals and 25 units) --> 1.4
53/43 = 1.23
28/17 = 1.6

Or am I thinking about it wrong?

Rosa Carson
Mosaic Commons Cohousing, MA

         And why should night and day be so radically divided?
             Is there anyone for whom loving and thinking
                 are lived as different beginnings?
 Would I have to spend my days with the one and my nights with the other?
                       -- Luce Irigaray


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