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US states ranked by sci-fi/fantasy interest

The survey is highly suspect. California, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, New York and Southern New England to Florida ranked low? I'd think that's where the bulk of our nerds are from.


I'll have a hard time believing there are few or no nerds in our nine largest cities.
 
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Minnesota at 36th sounds suspect as well. We are full of nerdiness up here. We are also supposed to have the most Harry Potter books per capita but rate fairly low on the article's scale.
 
Maryland should be higher than that. Baltimore has Otakons, Comic-cons, and Star Trek conventions yearly and I've personally entered a couple of Magic tournaments randomly at a couple of different locations, and they all were packed. Plus, Baltimorians love dressing up for stuff.
 
The survey is highly suspect. California, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, New York and Southern New England to Florida ranked low? I'd think that's where the bulk of our nerds are from.


I'll have a hard time believing there are few or no nerds in our nine largest cities.

Maybe the study is per capita?

Or maybe people in Utah just "like" more things on Facebook than those of us in Illinois. I'm a giant nerd, but there's nothing about my Facebook profile that would indicate that.

Or perhaps people in larger cities are more concerned with their privacy. Their accounts could be on lock down. I don't know exactly how this study was conducted, but I know I have my privacy settings set up so that nobody but my friends can see anything.
 
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Must've counted their Mormon faith.

It did bring us Battlestar Galactica and Ender's Game.

But there may be something to it. Salt Lake just had its second major con in seven months, and broke the record for largest convention in the state by a healthy margin, 100,000+ attendance which is about 10% of SLC metro area population.
 
And D.C. is the very lowest on the list... which is odd, since Alabama's suckiest store Books-a-Million, doesn't carry Marvel Comics or the SHIPS OF THE LINE calenders.
They won't order anything either.
 
Perhaps the survey is heavily influence by what people are willing to post on Facebook, or what there particular FB circles tend to emphasize? For example, there might be a lot of people in DC who work at government jobs and who probably don't want their super-hero freakiness talked about at work, or in a committee meeting.

It would also be influenced by the other things people have to post about, which in some areas would be food, surfing, night life, and whatnot, while people in pretty boring places would be more likely to post about Star Wars.

A better methodology might be to conduct a poll where all the questions are sci-fi obscurities.
 
The survey is highly suspect. California, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, New York and Southern New England to Florida ranked low? I'd think that's where the bulk of our nerds are from.


I'll have a hard time believing there are few or no nerds in our nine largest cities.

DC too. Every other person in this town is in IT. You best believe that they're all nerds.
 
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