Results of the experiment.

[bladespark]

Votes for:
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!

Comments

[jmfoxfire.livejournal.com]

what site is that at i like to see it

[jtbeckett.livejournal.com]

I admit that had it not been for my reason in choosing chicago having to do with friends in the music industry, my mind might not have gone there for several hours...

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

You want debate? Fine:

Rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble.

[wyngaed.livejournal.com]

Interesting. But I fear being able to see the responses of other commenters may have skewed your results. I thought of the cities because the comments already posted were of people thinking of the cities.

I reccomend trying this again... but with screened comments.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Except it's all been contaminated now, because you all know about it. I'll have to try it somewhere else. If I really care. Which I don't think I do. I was just bored.

[unspeakablevorn.livejournal.com]

Jesus left Chicago
And he headed down to New Orleans

Vorn

[aoanla.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of any bands called Chicago or Boston, so it was inevitable that I would think of the cities (except for Boston, where I thought of the cocktail shaker first). What fraction of your friendslist knows of both bands called "Chicago" and "Boston"?

In addition, I'm aware of the bad press that Boston got, but this seemed to be more an issue with hysterical leadership, rather than actually a problem with the city itself, so it didn't affect my vote.

(Indeed, the only thing that affected my vote was what I thought of things that were named "Boston" or "Chicago", other than the cities, which I know little of.)

[xodiac.livejournal.com]

Hooray! I got my own category!

Hadn't even thought of the bands. I'm not a very musically-minded guy.