re: Per capita, Louisiana is producing the most NFL skill/speed talent, and by a large margin

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What? There are MULTIPLE issues with using population compared to participation...how can you not understand this? Florida is the perfect scenario and yet you somehow have zero explanation for their low rates and you even tried to refute it at first.

Give up dude and take the L

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I clearly stated there are problems with using Population. I noted Florida as an example. There are also problems using participation rates. Alabama and LA have comparable populations but more kids play HS football in AL than LA, i.e self-select to play do to the Football culture that permeates the entire state (2 SEC schools in state similar to LA in size). So when comparing AL to LA, AL will look not as good as LA clearly do to higher rates among kids who no matter what they ever do, they are not going to play in college, much less NFL.

Scaling by population when comparing states like AL, LA, you can add South Carolina as well being comparable, correct for the issues related to participation that varies across those 3 states, factors which you can't control for.

Economist use population to compare state GDP, mean/Median Income, education level, unemployment. FBI uses population to measure Crime, etc.

You don't think there are differences across states i.e participation rates in the job market for example. Now to address issues, economist also use labor participation and look at how many people are in the job market as well.

So both per capita (population) and participation (people in job market actively seeking employment) are used when measuring Economic data. So these Economist seem to use both measures.