What "Michigan Ranks #5" Actually Tells You
Prompted by a Detroit News media request, a closer look at why Michigan's No. 5 ranking in five-year business survival is close to meaningless on its own — a rank is not a measurement, and a state's own trend against the national average tells you far more. Also gets into the selection problem hiding underneath any survival-rate comparison. Includes an interactive explorer of BLS survival-rate data by state.