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The demographics of Rudeness
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It would be interesting and useful, if some edu research group plotted the geographical distribution of the rudest people in the newsgroups, so that one could correlate the locations with the demographics, and get some idea of how race, religion, income, climate, school systems, size of cities, etc. affect rudeness.
Google would tag posts by ISP and location, and allow folks to tag posts by "rudeness", "vulgarity", "funny", "brilliant", etc. and then make it easy for folks to create overlays that show the relationships between qualities and geography and Internet Service Provider, and the demographic data on race, religion, education, wealth, etc.
No doubt it would be of great value to society if positive and negative social traits could be isolated.
"MIAMI (AP) - For the second consecutive year, rude Miami drivers have earned the city the title of worst road rage in a survey released Tuesday. Other cities near the top of the rude drivers list were New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
The most courteous drivers can be found in Portland, Ore.; Pittsburgh; the Seattle-Tacoma area; St. Louis; and Dallas-Fort Worth. Portland drivers were the least likely to see other motorists tailgating on the roadways, and St. Louis motorists were the least likely to swear at another driver, according to the survey. Minneapolis-St. Paul was rated the most courteous city in 2006 but fell to No. 12 this year."
View the demographic maps at the following web site to see how religion and demographics correlates with rudeness.
http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html
-- Tom Potter
http://www.tompotter.us
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