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2014 Apr 25, 9:17am 2,787 views 6 comments

by hrhjuliet ➕follow (1) 💰tip ignore

Oh no, I belong in Utah. ;-)

http://www.cnet.com/news/want-to-live-in-nerd-paradise-head-to-this-state/

#housing

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1 corntrollio 2014 Apr 25, 9:26am

I somewhat question the methodology used by Estately. Apparently they used self-identified data coming from Facebook to determine these rankings. Maybe it's that a greater proportion of nerds who live in less populated areas are likely to be on Facebook in the first place. Or maybe they're likely to be more enthusiastic about their nerd-dom on Facebook because there aren't enough nerds around with which to nerd-out IRL.

Great that they included Doctor Who. I didn't realize people still played Magic: The Gathering.

This data doesn't really fit with observation. As an example, there are LARP events in NorCal and SoCal all the time, according to my friends who LARP. There are probably many more opportunities for cosplay in California too, compared to Alaska, and not just Comic-Con. I'd imagine many more people get BBC America in California as compared to say Wyoming, for the Doctor Who part.

hrhjuliet 2014 Apr 25, 9:32am

corntrollio says

Great that they included Doctor Who.

But bow ties are cool not nerdy?
This is clearly very biased data. Santa Cruz would have had it's own special status if they really worked on this. ;-)

hrhjuliet 2014 Apr 25, 9:51am

corntrollio says