Results of the experiment.
Feb. 14th, 2007 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Boston the city: 13
Chicago the city: 12
Boston the band: 4
Chicago the band: 0
Blowing up Chicago: 1
I wanted to discover two things.
First, is the internet as small, or as big, as you think it is? Here in the areas of the net I spend time on, the city Boston has gotten quite a bit of bad press. Would the affect the results? The answer to this? Apparently not, as only one person mentioned the recent geurilla marketing kerfluffle in their reasons. So either the internet is bigger than I thought (that is, this hasn't had an impact on those who don't visit the same sites I do,) or it's smaller than I thought (that is, this has been all over the net and everyone's seen it, but it made no difference in their opinion of the location.) Not that this is a terribly scientific way of coming to such a conclusion, but eh, I'm not really interested in applying the scientific method here, and the second question was the more important one.
The second question being, am I the only person who thinks of BANDS before I think of cities, when I hear "Chicago" and "Boston" without a specific context provided?
The answer to this appears to be no! Four people thought of the bands, if not first, at least shortly thereafter. Though it seems that Chicago gets no love here. Which is fine by me, I like Boston better too. (And prefer Chicago the city, so... whatever.)
This was not an attempt at science, this was an attempt at alleviating boredom. Which it succeeded. Never have I gotten so many comments on something that didn't spark tons of argument!
Boston the city: 13
Chicago the city: 12
Boston the band: 4
Chicago the band: 0
Blowing up Chicago: 1
I wanted to discover two things.
First, is the internet as small, or as big, as you think it is? Here in the areas of the net I spend time on, the city Boston has gotten quite a bit of bad press. Would the affect the results? The answer to this? Apparently not, as only one person mentioned the recent geurilla marketing kerfluffle in their reasons. So either the internet is bigger than I thought (that is, this hasn't had an impact on those who don't visit the same sites I do,) or it's smaller than I thought (that is, this has been all over the net and everyone's seen it, but it made no difference in their opinion of the location.) Not that this is a terribly scientific way of coming to such a conclusion, but eh, I'm not really interested in applying the scientific method here, and the second question was the more important one.
The second question being, am I the only person who thinks of BANDS before I think of cities, when I hear "Chicago" and "Boston" without a specific context provided?
The answer to this appears to be no! Four people thought of the bands, if not first, at least shortly thereafter. Though it seems that Chicago gets no love here. Which is fine by me, I like Boston better too. (And prefer Chicago the city, so... whatever.)
This was not an attempt at science, this was an attempt at alleviating boredom. Which it succeeded. Never have I gotten so many comments on something that didn't spark tons of argument!
