A foremost rationale for the distortion of the data is the major outliers present in certain neighborhoods. For example there is a large population of homosexuals that reside in the Chelsea which causes a misrepresentation of the statistics. There are two prominent areas in Manhattan, which are Harlem and Chelsea that have high infection rates and greater concentrations of homosexuals than any other neighborhood examined. These polar points tend to create trends in the data that purport that the problem exists elsewhere, when it actually is a major crisis in the area that needs to be addressed immediately.