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No, it's not a breakdown of what Americans don't know how to spell. It's someone playing with Google auto-complete. Google could actually do this study. They h
by chasing 9y ago
No, it's not a breakdown of what Americans don't know how to spell. It's someone playing with Google auto-complete.
Google could actually do this study. They have a lot of good information at their disposal. What words do people misspell the most often? Why?
But no. This nonsense instead. Which -- even though they say it's not scientific -- people will look at and try to draw conclusions from, which will shade ever so slightly how they view the world.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoEverything shades how we view the world. It's very difficult even for scientific work to truly influence the state of affairs. It sounds like this work was lighthearted, and there's a place for such work even among big cos.
- coldpie 9y agoYeah, I was super disappointed. They even seem to be trying to make some "southerners are dumb" jab since they color code based on misspelled word length which just happens to create a big red cluster over the south. As if word length is a strong indicator of spelling difficulty. Asking how to spell "grey/gray" is a legitimately interesting question!
- iambateman 9y agoGotta say, I'm from South Carolina and I was pretty proud that we got "Chihuahua". ;)
- vinay427 9y agoI agree that the metric is awful for any reasonable interpretation that a viewer would make. However, they managed to make Texas, Missouri, West Virginia, and Connecticut stand out, with Oregon and Rhode Island being coastal states that also fared poorly, so the possible conclusions about the "south" from this map aren't obvious to me.
- aphistic 9y agoAs someone from Wesconson I have to say I'm appalled by this representation of my state!