Study Reveals The Most Googled 'Should I' Questions In Each State (bgr.com) 102
An anonymous reader quotes BGR:
One of the more interesting 2018 retrospectives we've seen focuses on which Google searches were the most popular across each state. Specifically, AT&T tapped into data from Google Trends and came up with a rather amusing look at the most popular "should I..." questions on a state by state basis.
"Should I vote" was the most-popular question in seven states, which isn't surprising, given the exciting races in many areas. Indiana and Michigan, on the other hand, are more concerned with the other four-letter v-word: vape.
Other interesting results:
"Should I vote" was the most-popular question in seven states, which isn't surprising, given the exciting races in many areas. Indiana and Michigan, on the other hand, are more concerned with the other four-letter v-word: vape.
Other interesting results:
- The most popular question in Washington was "Should I delete Facebook?"
- The most popular question in California was "Should I move out?"
- The most popular question in Texas was "Should I apologize?"
- The most popular question in both Nevada and New Hampshire was "Should I buy bitcoin?"
Although the article warns that "If you're asking Google what you should or shouldn't do, you probably already know the answer."
Should I (Score:3, Funny)
Re: Should I (Score:1)
No, you should not.
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In Colorado it's "should I light up another one or save it for tomorrow?"
In Arkansas it's "should I worry whether Cousin Mom and Uncle Dad are my real parents?"
In Alaska it's "should I buy my husband a new set of seal clubs for Christmas?"
In Oklahoma it's "should I have deep-fried bread, deep-fried cornflakes, or deep-fried omelets for breakfast?"
Re:Should I (Score:5, Insightful)
What seems worrying to me is that it looks like people are actually asking Google for advice in how to conduct their personal life like if they were talking to a psychologist or something.
Re:Should I (Score:5, Funny)
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So.... in the next elections all the Russians need to do is get google to answer "Yes" when people ask "Should I vote for Trump". Election won!
Democracy at its finest.
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Might as well treat it like Eliza, since it no longer works using operators to construct a search as a code fragment.
In the old days searching was about selecting the combination of keywords that would be most likely to appear in the results. Even that doesn't work well anymore.
Instead, ask the most similar stupid question that is common, and you'll get better results. Sad but true. And then the results you have to do the opposite, look for the page that answered a better question.
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Obviously by putting a phrase like "should i vote" in the search box they are searching for pages that contain the phrase "should i vote," i.e. forum topics in which people ask that question and presumably others answer.
There's nothing weird or worrysome about it. People are not trying to have conversations with search engines. They are using search engines to search for pages containing a specific phrase, as intended.
Re: Should I (Score:2)
n Oklahoma it's "should I have deep-fried bread, deep-fried cornflakes, or deep-fried omelets for breakfast?"
That sounds more like Texas. In Oklahoma, if it's not Chicken-Fried Steak, then it either came from a fastfood joint or the supermarket freezer section... and their number one search question should be "is it okay to treat my dog's mange with used engine oil?" however it's generally assumed that that is a "yes" and they just go ahead and use used engine oil.
No, really.
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>"Paradise is expensive."
I think that depends on your definition of paradise. In many, many ways (besides financial), California is far from a paradise. I did have to laugh when I saw the "should I move out?".
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Speak for yourself. California literally has a Paradise [wikipedia.org]. (... With apologies to 2018 victims.)
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Re:California - "Should I move out?" (Score:4)
Paradise is expensive.
Paradise just burned the fuck down. Bet you can get lots cheap there right now from desperate underinsured who need to get paid and get out ASAP.
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Well, don't expect English speakers to see "failed" as a synonym for, "Yer bee-leafs are differunt than miine."
Re: California - "Should I move out?" (Score:2)
On Facebook it's assumed it's because of socialism and the extreme poverty and lack of jobs that California and Europe that is causing the moves. Fox news parrots this everyday. Mention California's high GDP and they won't believe you!
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A real estate crash won't be enough, their land prices are so high they'd find a hard floor at the property value of their neighbors, and so flight funded by selling would still be reasonable.
In Oregon we tried adding warning labels on our border, but even that didn't stop them.
Re:California - "Should I move out?" (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm constantly being told California is a paradise. Why would anyone want to leave?
It's expensive to live in a nice place.
People can sell their house in California and buy a place twice as big somewhere else.
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These numbers are a little old (2010), but if you look at a list of states ranked by gini coefficient:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
You will indeed see places like California, New York, and DC ranked poorly, but you will also see places like Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky. On the other end of the scale the states with the least inequality include places like Utah, New Hampshire, Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota. Both ends of the spectrum include a number of liberal states and both
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IE, if we think that poverty is bad for society, reducing income inequality might help.
The measures are likely entangled in such a way that the conclusion you draw isn't valid, or you're at the very least attempting to draw a causal relationship from a correlation. It's pretty easy to look at parts of the world where almost everyone is impoverished, yet because they're all about equally dirt poor, there's not much income inequality.
On the other end you can get something like Hong Kong which has a high (comparable to Haiti using the CIA's numbers [cia.gov]) Gini coefficient. Everyone there is extreme
Very simple arithmetic (Score:2)
State A:
Neighborhood 1 average income $100,000
Neighborhood 2 average income $50,000
Inequality = $50,000
State B:
Neighborhood 1 average income $100,000
Neighborhood 2 average income $30,000
Inequality = $70,000
Having a bunch of broke people mathematically means you'll have higher inequality, if you also have anyone doing well.
The sane thing to do is for state B to look at state A and ask "how we can help our lower income people make $50,000 like they do in the other state? What is state A doing that makes thei
Only if they made it (Score:2)
Money represents economic value. "Making money" is a shorthand way of saying "creating economic value". Someone who "makes $30,000" is someone who produces finding valued at $30,000.
Based on your comment, you might be surprised to learn people are not in fact born with $10 million shoved up their ass which then "went somewhere", to use your words. The balance, the "thermodynamics" is that their economic income matches their economic outflow. If you build tables in your garage, and each week someo, someone
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You're limiting the concept of income to that which is produced through labor. But that's not the only source of income, or even primary source for the highest earners. There is also income via rents. Which has many forms, interest on borrowed money, dividends to investors, and rent for use of property.
Someone who "makes $1,000,000" might not get any of that via labor, but entirely because what they own entitles them to it. While capitalism tells us that capital creates more value, someone who inherited
Right and wrong (Score:2)
You've come to a correct conclusion regarding individual action, while being confused about some basic terminology.
You also seem to missed part of what I wrote, stating I didn't say anything about investment when in fact I did. Remember "if ten of them but all the tools and build the factory"? Yeah, that's investment.
> [Labor] But that's not the only source of income, or even primary source for the highest earners.
You are 100% correct that for the vast majority of high earners, the earnings are multipl
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Happens to any place that people in general want to go, because money destroys what it loves. Key West used to be a funky, bohemian place; now the interesting oddball who serves you your drinks doesn't crash nearby anymore; he drives for a couple hours to get home when his shift is over.
Places that money loves, like Key West or San Francisco, gets turned into an Epcot Center versions of themselves. But California is a vast state.It is slightly larger in land area than Sweden. When somebody asks whether th
Re: California - "Should I move out?" (Score:1)
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They weren’t talking about leaving the state. They were talking about moving out of their parent’s basement. With housing prices higher there than anywhere else in the nation, however, the answer is nearly always, “no”.
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I love how everyone is so quick to make these super deep jumps in logic using only this single 1-dimensional metric.
"Should I move out?" could mean California has more basement neck-beards than everywhere else. But it could just as easily mean that the basement neck-beards in California are at least considering moving out, whereas everywhere else they don't even bother.
Obligatory xkcd [xkcd.com].
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I agree, California is a shit-hole, which is why no one lives there.
It's also a socialist boondoggle, which is why the economy is such shit and no companies want to be based there.
Clearly whenever someone asks "Should I move out?" with no other context, they must mean "out of their State", right? That's by far the most common usage of the phrase.
I mean, if California is such a paradise, how come it's not the most populous state with the largest economy? Checkmate, libtards.
Should I RTFA... (Score:1)
Kansas barbecue? (Score:1)
Since when is Kansas known for their barbecue? I both love barbecue and have lived in Kansas, and while there were a few barbecue restaurants in Wichita, I don't recall anyone ever talking about barbecue like Tennessee or Texas. People in Kansas sure love to eat, a lot, but barbe
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People in Kansas sure love to eat, a lot, but barbecue restaurants are far less common than burgers, fried chicken, and Mexican, in fact aside from chain fast food, Mexican is definitely extremely common. Plus the barbecue there really, really, really sucks and isn't worthy of note.
I'm surprised they allow Mexican.
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When Voldemort uses my shampoo
Those search autofinish would be a little amusing at least.
Hard to imagine that this article got published anywhere. I'm only here because I can't look away from a train wreck.
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When Voldemort uses my shampoo
He was bald. I hate it more when he uses the dining room to feed other guests to his snake.
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When Voldemort uses my shampoo
He was bald. [...]
That's what's so annoying. HE DOESN'T EVEN NEED IT!!!
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It knows who you are, and what content you consume. That's why it says that stuff to you.
Should I shampoo? No. You should shave the whole monstrosity off. It smells like chinchilla.
And stop trying to eat the Universe. You don't have to eat just because you're rewatching a movie you already saw two thousand times.
And you know why you're really here.
bad methodology and dumb article title (Score:2)
The method used was to find the most distinct query for each state from a list of the top 100 queries for all states. This nearly guarantees that the result will NOT be the most popular query for any state,
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That explains it, I knew people in Idaho weren't really that caring.
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The answer is ... (Score:2)
The most popular question in Texas was "Should I apologize?"
Demographics (Score:1)