Comments on: Death, Freedom, and Cold Winters http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/sweet-ass-american-trends/ The Official Blog of OkCupid.com Wed, 08 Jul 2015 08:59:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.5 By: LOL http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/sweet-ass-american-trends/comment-page-4/#comment-34655 Mon, 30 May 2011 08:36:13 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=121#comment-34655 and then, the people who chose the guns would shoot them…i am in favor of gun control but just sayin 😛

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By: JP http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/sweet-ass-american-trends/comment-page-4/#comment-19849 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 02:16:01 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=121#comment-19849 Well, the gun control one isn’t really a paradox. The pro-gunners wouldn’t vote so the anti-gunners create gun control laws; but since the pro-voters are unarmed, the anti-voters would just start shooting. Problem solved!

Oh, and the self-confidence thing is self-explanatory. If you spend half of your life cooped up inside while the raging blizzards blow, unable to see the sun or socialize, I can’t imagine you’re going to be that self-confident. You ARE going to be a lot nicer to people when you finally do get out, tho, since it’s the first human contact you’ve had in a while.
Thus, Minnesota nice.

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By: Chauncey http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/sweet-ass-american-trends/comment-page-4/#comment-19786 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:26:11 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=121#comment-19786 as someone who was born and raised in North Dakota, but now lives in Minnesota, I can say that compared to the rest of the upper mid-west, MN is very liberal. I do, however, feel the abortion/death penalty question is a loaded question. I doubt you would get the same results asking it inversely (and I know you don’t write the questions, but still…) for example, I support abortion (or, to put it less morbidly, women’s choice) i’m kind of undecided about the death penalty, but I am inclined to be against it. Is this logically inconsistent as well?

also, how are criminals and developing fetuses the same thing?

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By: Danski http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/sweet-ass-american-trends/comment-page-4/#comment-14193 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:19:29 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=121#comment-14193 I found the data pretty interesting. Though i felt some of the reasons given for them were perhaps bias due too peoples opinions of states.

It always poses a problem for people like me who would wish for a 3rd option on almost every question.

The funny thing is, what i would do myself, and what i think others should be aloud too do are two different views entirely. I guess im a bit of the old ”I may not agree with what you say, but i’ll defend too the death your right too say it”

Ie while i could not kill someone myself, I would happily let someone get away with killing someone like hitler. Murder does have its uses in very very rare cases in my opinion.

I feel the same about the death penalty i think it should be almost entirely banned baring very rare occasions. such as above.

As for abortion i think the death penalty and abortion arent actually logically linked, Since the death penalty is for a adult, who has made his own choices and if u like chosen the death penalty for himself by commiting mass murder without remorse or something. Where as abortion, the baby is completely innocent having never had the opertunity too live outside of its mothers womb.

As with most things i think their are always exceptions, Because whilest i would never concider abortion a option for my own unborn children i do think in some occasions parents should have the option too abort, though i feel their should be very very strict rules about it too stop people simply abortion as a quick solution

Oh and im English not american soo i guess my views are bound too differ due too different rules here.

I did find the self confidence map the most interesting, Since one would assume that their are confident and self confident people where every you are from. Though i guess people from for instance hollywood may have higher self confidence levels i guess cos u might expect such of actors ;p

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By: Scott http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/sweet-ass-american-trends/comment-page-4/#comment-13258 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:42:00 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=121#comment-13258 Allow me to reinforce thoughts about the colors used for this
there are a lot of people with red green color blindness out there. So I have not that much idea what is going on. Could you in the future, and also for this one (because I am into nagging) use a different color axis system instead of one that just is like yellow and brown to me. Because I have to
And now to be a tongue in cheek troll, it is DISCRIMINATORY to make these maps so that they are BIGOTED against people with red green color blindness. you guys are intolerant and a bunch of fascists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! etc.

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By: Ronald http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/sweet-ass-american-trends/comment-page-4/#comment-13012 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:30:39 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=121#comment-13012 What you do seem to “forget” to mention, (or even flat out ignore according to this quote from the article: “It’s the most ‘brotherhood of man’ place in America. Weird, huh?”) is that the sample you use is single (and mainly younger than 30), and that therefore some (or perhaps even all) of the replies to these question, are not representative of the population as a whole, and thus results are probably skewed….

In other words: I think you should be more careful in “generalizing” the conclusions, or even better, with each ‘factoid’ clearly state that the OKCupid population is not the same distribution as the general population, and that these factoids only count within the context of OKCupid…

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By: Brian R http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/sweet-ass-american-trends/comment-page-4/#comment-10784 Wed, 05 May 2010 08:45:58 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=121#comment-10784 If you want to map data for other regions any GIS tool can do this fairly easily. All you’re making are chloropleth maps. It’s pretty trivial and can be done in a few minutes with the data in the right format.

Anyway.. please keep posting these blogs I find them interesting both on an academic and personal level! The latter meaning.. they’re actually helping me, hah!

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By: Tuomas http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/sweet-ass-american-trends/comment-page-4/#comment-10395 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:31:21 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=121#comment-10395 “I put this up because the question was interesting and also implies a paradox. If the people who most love guns were offered this choice, the rest of us could pass real gun control. Voila.”

And how you are expected to take those guns away? By shooting all who won’t give them voluntarily?

That’s called civil war, you know. Would you start civil war just to get guns away from some people (who are not criminals already, for other reasons)? I think I wouldn’t.

But that’s not the actual point: If you have a choice like that, you would have to believe that your vote is not sold or swapped for some personal perks to the congressman and that your opinion does matter more than two seconds after you left your vote.

I’d say that anyone actually believing that is very naive. Look at what happens in Washington DC and prove me wrong. 😉

And yes, it doesn’t matter who do you vote or do you vote at all, because all of the candidates are thoroghougly corrupted two secons afted being nominated as candidate, some even before that. It’s the party line, only corruption brings in the money and that’s what the parties are after.

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By: ben http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/sweet-ass-american-trends/comment-page-4/#comment-10392 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:35:18 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=121#comment-10392 Dig the maps… I would like to see maps for Australia, Canada, European countries etc. If there is no easy solution to mapping regions within those countries because of Google’s chart API, then at least including results for those countries as a whole would give us a world-wide basis of comparison.

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By: ariannaaine http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/sweet-ass-american-trends/comment-page-4/#comment-9624 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:09:15 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=121#comment-9624 I resent the comment on Minnesota!

Wait, no I don’t. That’s totally true. Well, except for the district I live in. These crazies elected Michelle Bachmann.

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