Saturday, May 18, 2013

Fuck yeah, Ohio Wins

At swearing:
In a recent study, The Marchex Institute, the research arm of Marchex, used Call Mining technology to aggregate data from more than 600,000 phone calls placed from consumers to businesses across 30 industries. After scanning for curse words and linking the frequency of those words with all 50 states, they found people in Ohio are more likely to curse than any other state.
Right behind Ohio as most likely curse are Massachusetts (2nd place), Arizona (3rd place), Texas (4th place), and Virginia (5th place).
Marchex found that people from Washington State are the least likely to curse (which only solidifies the notion that people in Washington are a little too passive-aggressive.) In fact, Ohioans curse more than twice the rate of Washingtonians. According to the data, Washingtonians curse about every 300 conversations, whereas Ohioans swore about every 150 conversations.
Additionally, the data from Marchex found Ohio is one of the “Least Courteous” states, ranking 5th as the least likely to say “please” and “thank you”. (The “Least Courteous” state is Wisconsin; the “Most Courteous” is South Carolina.)
They're checking complaint calls?  And it's surprising that people swear?  That seems like an odd study to me, but what the fuck do I know?

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