ATribeCalledGreg t1_iyayso2 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 1:26 AM

You missed somebody making a stupid map to farm a ton of engagement.

Excelius t1_iydq7hb wrote on November 30, 2022 at 5:17 PM

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1845:_State_Word_Map

These maps, if they aren't just straight up fake, are usually picking up on very minor statistical differences in a noisy data set.

SendAstronomy t1_iyenpox wrote on November 30, 2022 at 8:51 PM

AMPLIFYING

steelcity_ t1_iye3a21 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 6:40 PM

This is exactly it. At least this has "pepperoni" for a lot of states, so it appears mostly real. It shows effort, even if it's all bullshit. I saw a map like this on Facebook recently that had every state's favorite burger place. As you can imagine, some In N Out's, some Shake Shacks.. and PA (along with a few other states) had a place not only that I had not heard of, but after doing a few minutes of research, found they didn't even have any locations in our state.

Excelius t1_iye97dh wrote on November 30, 2022 at 7:18 PM

> At least this has "pepperoni" for a lot of states, so it appears mostly real.

See, that's part of what makes me suspect it's not real.

Because if it were based on any real data, literally every state in the US is going to have pepperoni in the top spot.