Why is your state so....

Doug B

posted: 8/21/2012 at 1:10 PM
modified: 8/21/2012 at 1:13 PM

Quote from NaderAlfie on 8/21/2012 at 1:03 PM:

No, I just find it odd that people are always detaching Alaska and putting it in strange places.

I thought you could see Mexico from Alaska or something like that.

All I ever needed to know about maps is what I learned from Disney's "It's a Small World After All" ride. The world starts in Scandinavia where you are greeted by reindeer on hilltops, Nordic folk dancers, and Danish toy soldiers. The world ends at the USA.

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Joe.

posted: 8/21/2012 at 2:15 PM

Thanks Doug for putting that stupid song in my head.

Thanks a lot.

I have given up trying to defend my state. Say what you will. I no longer care.

MilkTruck

posted: 8/21/2012 at 2:17 PM

Quote from L Train on 8/21/2012 at 12:35 PM:

Boring

Liberal

Poor

Cold.

I should just run into oncoming traffic tonight.

Tried that already. Didn't even make the newspaper...

Did an angel whisper in your ear and hold you close and take away your fear...In those long last moments

LedLincoln

Food

posted: 8/21/2012 at 2:23 PM

Quote from waytogo on 8/21/2012 at 11:57 AM:

Well, how 'bout that? We didn't get 'so domineering', after all. We got 'SO AWESOME'.

Just for you, waytogo (and to raise it in Google's ranking), I did the search. Guess what came up #1? Smile

Why are Texans so domineering?

testing testing

LedLincoln

Food

posted: 8/21/2012 at 2:25 PM

Quote from zoom-zoom on 8/21/2012 at 11:36 AM:

Interesting...my homestate of WI scores high for overweight on one measurement, then scores quite favorably in low obesity #s on another measure. Both measures were deemed as "actual data." Whose data?

The map on the left is the perception based on Google's autocomplete feature. The one on the right is based on CDC data. Yep, there's a disparity.

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LedLincoln

Food

posted: 8/21/2012 at 2:26 PM

Quote from Joe. on 8/21/2012 at 2:15 PM:

Thanks Doug for putting that stupid song in my head.

Thanks a lot.

+1

testing testing

waytogo

posted: 8/21/2012 at 2:30 PM

Quote from LedLincoln on 8/21/2012 at 2:23 PM:

Just for you, waytogo (and to raise it in Google's ranking), I did the search. Guess what came up #1?

Ha--awesome! Big grin

zoom-zoom

Fanatic #3965

posted: 8/21/2012 at 2:31 PM

Quote from LedLincoln on 8/21/2012 at 2:25 PM:

The map on the left is the perception based on Google's autocomplete feature. The one on the right is based on CDC data. Yep, there's a disparity.

Ahhh...OK, it wasn't completely clear which map was showing which results. It is really interesting how different our perceptions of things (even right where we live) differ from reality.

Kirsten

'07: 1324.5 | '08: 1561 | '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike | '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike | '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike '12: 659.9 run ~ 3365.6 bike (100% benched by ortho last 4.5 weeks while in long-arm cast)

'13 Goals:

• DON'T BREAK ANYTHING!!!

• get within 5#s of 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)

• 1st olympic distance duathlon

• 1st Iceman Cometh mtn bike race

• Half Fanatic

• punch Type 1 in the junk

runnerdave67

posted: 8/21/2012 at 2:41 PM
modified: 8/21/2012 at 2:43 PM

I'm curious, are these suggestions really based on common searches? Or are they generated by Google?

LedLincoln

Food

posted: 8/21/2012 at 2:48 PM

Quote from runnerdave67 on 8/21/2012 at 2:41 PM:

I'm curious, are these suggestions really based on common searches? Or are they generated by Google?

They are presumably based on frequency of searches on Google. Theoretically, Google could be doing something with the ranking, but it's probably just how many times that phrase has been entered. Are you tall, fat, happy, and good at swimming?

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runnerdave67

posted: 8/21/2012 at 3:07 PM
modified: 8/21/2012 at 3:08 PM

Neither tall nor fat, unhappy at the moment because I'm working through some joint unpleasantness. Also, I'm an awful swimmer.

Google, apparently, is full of it. Perhaps I'm not true enough to my own country...

mikeymike

posted: 8/21/2012 at 5:15 PM

Quote from runnerdave67 on 8/21/2012 at 2:41 PM:

I'm curious, are these suggestions really based on common searches? Or are they generated by Google?

What is the difference?

Runners run.

Cherrieruns

Maggie & Molly

posted: 8/22/2012 at 6:19 AM

Quote from mikeymike on 8/21/2012 at 12:18 PM:

Liberal

Expensive

Expensive to live in

Important

Yup, pretty much.

agreed. that's us.

"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop."
Wisdom of Confucius

HF 4363

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Fanatic #3965

posted: 8/23/2012 at 9:11 PM

Kirsten

'07: 1324.5 | '08: 1561 | '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike | '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike | '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike '12: 659.9 run ~ 3365.6 bike (100% benched by ortho last 4.5 weeks while in long-arm cast)

'13 Goals:

• DON'T BREAK ANYTHING!!!

• get within 5#s of 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)

• 1st olympic distance duathlon

• 1st Iceman Cometh mtn bike race

• Half Fanatic

• punch Type 1 in the junk

Chuck Easton

posted: 8/24/2012 at 10:34 PM

Washington state: rainy, cloudy, important, liberal. Not sure how important figures in- the other three are true for the western half of the state, but not the eastern half.

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