Problem I have with this is, where I live; Seattle, many are NOT from here. So they not only bring their dogs and tech jobs BUT their provincial attitudes. It’s AKA: Seattle chill. Here they accept tents, RV’s and open spaces chock full of drug fueled addicts. Citizens have become ATM’s. I used to be much nicer. Not any more. Sucks being here.
This study has things BACKWARDS. People searching less already know how to be nice… people searching more don’t know how to be nice. Are we in first grade? What a deceptive study.
MONTANA IS CALIFORNIA!!! LOL. The first state listed and the last are the same! What a strange situation this study stumbled across …Bozeman, MT is called BozeLAnd now and the MAJORITY of people are from LA. It’s almost as expensive as LA. Even Helena, MT is now known to be a tech haven. As far as the rest of Montana it’s mostly college kids. The reason transplants are SEARCHING for what to say is because they perceive Montana as a hokey cowboy state and since thet act like a**holes in LA they have to look up how to be nice…it’s a huge mythical perception thing and people in LA talk funny (and know it) so they have to look up what to say to cowboys…lol. They’re also techie so it makes sense they would turn to Google more than any other state.
NORTH DAKOTA IS MISERABLE. People are searching for the correct terms for similar reasons. They don’t know how to be nice so they have to look it up. They have a deep Nordic history as the oil industry there is tied to Norwegian and Scandanavian countries in general. I’ve stayed in 40 states and North Dakota is the meanest this is a Scandinavian thing….look up the Dutch and Swedish and how frank/forward they are. They don’t say thank you. They think it’s weird to have conversations and if they are in the oil industry they’re just plain miserable because it’s so tough. I lived there for a year. ND is all oil just like Scandanavian countries, this is how Sweden for example fuels their fancy looking social institutions btw, by taking oil and investing in tech stocks). God help us I don’t even know where to start about how MEAN North Dakotans actually are. It goes beyond the culture and into the misery of the oil industry. I’ve had more problems and arguments than in any other states. People there just don’t help you and they do mean pushy things.
Pennsylvania and New Jersey used to have very nice people but post pandemic it’s hard to say. It feels like everyone is pissed and everyone has moved..%80 of my friends who didn’t have families moved far during the pandemic.
Lastly, I’ve realized over the years that each state has a division. Take PA for example the west side is oil and middle class the east side is tech and fancy shmancy people. This happens in almost every state. There is the hardworking “get your hands dirty” part of the state and there is the high tech, usually city parts of the state. Every state has a contrast like that. So it’s difficult to judge exactly how people will act because of these divisions.
Horribly backwards study. To me this is evidence of the deep disconnection of our society.
That title had me spitting out my coffee! I live in Montana and we have a local Facebook group called ‘Billings bad drivers’, multiple times a month reports are made to the group to report Big pickup trucks with Montana plates running their rentals (normally from California) off the road.
In other news, citizens of Montana most likely to believe Google is the name of a small person that lives in your computer and comes up with your search results.
This is on StudyFinds.com. So calling BS is redundant.
But just think about what they are actually measuring and what they are trying to claim their “research” to finding.
They are measuring how many times people in a state searched for the terms “please” and ‘thank you”.
Here in my state we already know what those terms mean. We ain’t gotta look ’em up. So, according to their methodology, naturally my state will rank way below CA & NY.
How ridiculous! Maybe the states that don’t have to look up the definitions of some words are actually more polite! Because they already know what the words mean. I have never ever seen such a stupid way to “rank” anything.
I am a native Tennessean. Tennessee used to be the very picture of what was once known as “Southern hospitality” and good manners. Then over the last couple of years we’ve become inundated by typically rude Yankees from Illinois, New York, and California. They’ve brought their borish self-absorbed ways with them making here more like there. We natives wish they would go home and let us again be a place where people are friendly.
While I wouldn’t use search terms to suggest which state is more polite, I CERTAINLY wouldn’t suggest extrapolating the IPPOSITE either. Anyone trying to suggest California is polite because they search the least, or that Montana is stupid for “thinking there’s a person in their computer” (nice casual prejudice you filthy yankie) is equally as flawed as the site claims are.
Montanners are likely far more polite than most of the country, they are spared much of the bitter angst of the costal cities and have a lot of land to themselves. Given I live in California, how polite people are is a direct relationship to how close to the cities they live. The closer, the worse the people. Gee, I wonder what’s causing that loss of community around the state 😉
Problem I have with this is, where I live; Seattle, many are NOT from here. So they not only bring their dogs and tech jobs BUT their provincial attitudes. It’s AKA: Seattle chill. Here they accept tents, RV’s and open spaces chock full of drug fueled addicts. Citizens have become ATM’s. I used to be much nicer. Not any more. Sucks being here.
This study has things BACKWARDS. People searching less already know how to be nice… people searching more don’t know how to be nice. Are we in first grade? What a deceptive study.
MONTANA IS CALIFORNIA!!! LOL. The first state listed and the last are the same! What a strange situation this study stumbled across …Bozeman, MT is called BozeLAnd now and the MAJORITY of people are from LA. It’s almost as expensive as LA. Even Helena, MT is now known to be a tech haven. As far as the rest of Montana it’s mostly college kids. The reason transplants are SEARCHING for what to say is because they perceive Montana as a hokey cowboy state and since thet act like a**holes in LA they have to look up how to be nice…it’s a huge mythical perception thing and people in LA talk funny (and know it) so they have to look up what to say to cowboys…lol. They’re also techie so it makes sense they would turn to Google more than any other state.
NORTH DAKOTA IS MISERABLE. People are searching for the correct terms for similar reasons. They don’t know how to be nice so they have to look it up. They have a deep Nordic history as the oil industry there is tied to Norwegian and Scandanavian countries in general. I’ve stayed in 40 states and North Dakota is the meanest this is a Scandinavian thing….look up the Dutch and Swedish and how frank/forward they are. They don’t say thank you. They think it’s weird to have conversations and if they are in the oil industry they’re just plain miserable because it’s so tough. I lived there for a year. ND is all oil just like Scandanavian countries, this is how Sweden for example fuels their fancy looking social institutions btw, by taking oil and investing in tech stocks). God help us I don’t even know where to start about how MEAN North Dakotans actually are. It goes beyond the culture and into the misery of the oil industry. I’ve had more problems and arguments than in any other states. People there just don’t help you and they do mean pushy things.
Pennsylvania and New Jersey used to have very nice people but post pandemic it’s hard to say. It feels like everyone is pissed and everyone has moved..%80 of my friends who didn’t have families moved far during the pandemic.
Lastly, I’ve realized over the years that each state has a division. Take PA for example the west side is oil and middle class the east side is tech and fancy shmancy people. This happens in almost every state. There is the hardworking “get your hands dirty” part of the state and there is the high tech, usually city parts of the state. Every state has a contrast like that. So it’s difficult to judge exactly how people will act because of these divisions.
Horribly backwards study. To me this is evidence of the deep disconnection of our society.
That title had me spitting out my coffee! I live in Montana and we have a local Facebook group called ‘Billings bad drivers’, multiple times a month reports are made to the group to report Big pickup trucks with Montana plates running their rentals (normally from California) off the road.
In other news, citizens of Montana most likely to believe Google is the name of a small person that lives in your computer and comes up with your search results.
Iowa less polite than NY? I call BS
This is on StudyFinds.com. So calling BS is redundant.
But just think about what they are actually measuring and what they are trying to claim their “research” to finding.
They are measuring how many times people in a state searched for the terms “please” and ‘thank you”.
Here in my state we already know what those terms mean. We ain’t gotta look ’em up. So, according to their methodology, naturally my state will rank way below CA & NY.
How ridiculous! Maybe the states that don’t have to look up the definitions of some words are actually more polite! Because they already know what the words mean. I have never ever seen such a stupid way to “rank” anything.
I am a native Tennessean. Tennessee used to be the very picture of what was once known as “Southern hospitality” and good manners. Then over the last couple of years we’ve become inundated by typically rude Yankees from Illinois, New York, and California. They’ve brought their borish self-absorbed ways with them making here more like there. We natives wish they would go home and let us again be a place where people are friendly.
What a stupid article. And I’m usually very polite, so much so that I don’t even have to look up how to say it like the fools from Montana must.
While I wouldn’t use search terms to suggest which state is more polite, I CERTAINLY wouldn’t suggest extrapolating the IPPOSITE either. Anyone trying to suggest California is polite because they search the least, or that Montana is stupid for “thinking there’s a person in their computer” (nice casual prejudice you filthy yankie) is equally as flawed as the site claims are.
Montanners are likely far more polite than most of the country, they are spared much of the bitter angst of the costal cities and have a lot of land to themselves. Given I live in California, how polite people are is a direct relationship to how close to the cities they live. The closer, the worse the people. Gee, I wonder what’s causing that loss of community around the state 😉