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A Tale Of 2 Americas: "Baby Massage" & iPads Versus ".38 Revolver" & Antichrist
Based on the results of a decade of search data, NY Times offers a rather disturbing portrait of the very different subjects that occupy the thoughts of richer America and poorer America. Offering a glimpse into the day-to-day thinking behind the nation's inequality, searches in the hardest places to live include health problems, weight-loss diets, guns, video games, religion and Antichrist!? In the easiest places to live, cameras, iPads, and baby massage are highly correlated to ease-of-living.
2 Americas...
As NY Times' David Leonhart ( @DLeonhart ) notes,
This summer, The Upshot conducted an analysis of every county in the country to determine which were the toughest places to live, based on an index of six factors including income, education and life expectancy. Afterward, we heard from Hal Varian, the chief economist at Google, who suggested looking at how web searches differ on either end of our index.
The results, based on a decade of search data, offer a portrait of the very different subjects that occupy the thoughts of richer America and poorer America. They’re a glimpse into the id of our national inequality.
In the hardest places to live – which include large areas of Kentucky, Arkansas, Maine, New Mexico and Oregon – health problems, weight-loss diets, guns, video games and religion are all common search topics. The dark side of religion is of special interest: Antichrist has the second-highest correlation with the hardest places, and searches containing “hell” and “rapture” also make the top 10.
To be clear, these aren’t the most common searches in our list of hardest places. They’re the searches with the highest correlation to our index. Searches on some topics, like Oprah Winfrey or the Super Bowl, are popular almost everywhere. The terms on these lists are relatively common subjects for web searches in one kind of place — and rarely a subject in the other.
In the easiest places to live, the Canon Elph and other digital cameras dominate the top of the correlation list. Apparently, people in places where life seems good, including Nebraska, Iowa, Wyoming and much of the large metropolitan areas of the Northeast and West Coast, want to record their lives in images. Beyond cameras, subjects popular in the easiest places include Baby Joggers, Baby Bjorns and baby massage; Skype and Apple devices like the iPod Nano; a piece of workout equipment known as a foam roller.
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As David concludes,
The different subjects that occupy people’s thoughts aren’t just a window into American life today. They’re a window onto future inequality, too.
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Dog Benadryl killed me.
Not literally...
I must not be doing well, I have no idea what "elph" is or why someone who look it up.
I just did, it's a type of camera.
they left out the search terms from the southern end of manhattan
escort
discreet
hft
bonus
ranitidine
addiction
rehab
second apartment
bugatti
insecurity
penis enlargment
ashley dupre
erectile dysfunction
mitzvah
blonde
hamptons
yacht
male prostitute
antibiotic
Top 10 Zero Hedge reader Google searches...
11. hugh hendry recent interview
12. ditto kyle bass
13. Simon Black's real estate listings in Peru
14. Which EU official did Nigel Farage insult today
15. What's Gartman Shorting now
16. Latest Goldman Muppet bloodbath
17. What's a Birinyi's Ruler
Will Pink Floyd release another album with Roger Waters? They aren't getting any young, and only three are left.
The Tylers need to get out of New York once in a while.
In fact, all the mass media need to get out of New York, and stay out.
1. I have not bought music in years. I could consider the new Pink Floyd release.
2. Antichrist, rapture, guns.. I’m good with that.
Take THAT, ISIS!
And of course courtesy of Greatleader, "guns and Bibles" as a singular search term oft confused with 'Guns and Roses".
Hmmmm Dark Side of the Moon
PS Talkin' about Holiday Greetings, way back when, I fell into the trap of sending Xmas cards to everybody under the sun... relatives, friends, business acquaintances, employees, bosses, whatever. Got to be one hell of a lot of cards. So a few years Mrs. K and I got them embossed. Nice touch. One year we went to the place we got them and I was in an foul medieval mood, thinking WTF? am I spending all this money and....
So, when the snotty card lady (all dressed to the 9's, BTW, very pretentious) asked us what we wanted for the greeting inside, I said "May you choke to death on your fucking holiday dinner."
I'm okay with Christmas cards, but what burns my ass is when some business, or law firm sends me one that says "happy holidays".
Oh for crying out loud, you know you wouldn't ever send that card any other time, or wish anybody happy anything.
It's Christmas time. Respect it.
Antichrist is antigun.
I thought an 'elph' was something Obomba put up his kazoo.
Oh, maybe it is.
18 Fuck Bernanke
19 Obama Doomsday Golfcart
20 Dedollarization and gold
21 printing water in california for dummies
22 mini windshield isis foam for tie microphone
23 LANSKY " isis sharpening survival tool "
24 - DIY root cellar
25 - wild edibles
26 - permaculture techniques
27 - list of countries without extradition
28 - list of countries with largest indigenous populations
29 - stewart rhodes latest interview
30 - downloadable ebooks on survival strategies
31 Disposable N-91 masks
32 Potassium iodide
33. Flight tracker app
dup - double click
kinda sad really... the poor and downtrodden know that the world is totally screwed up, and are looking for answers... but, trying to find that kind of info with google? not going to cut it...
Why is my life going down the drain?
http://www.federalreserve.gov/
Two extremes. Fantasy and Jungle. What they have in common is complete inability to actually try to use their brain productively plus complete entropy of social interaction skills.
When a website like FaceInHole® - "Who Do You Want To be Today" can even exist...you know fantasy is at whole new levels.
The others cannot be THAT POOR if they have internet and a computer, 64% of the global population has never had access to the internet, and 82% have never flown in an airplane.
If you divide up all the US banking derivatives evenly though...every human on the planet would have 200,000 $$ in hand.
$200,000 in debt, you mean
You got my point exactly. Fantasyland.
So you're saying that the poorest Americans think it's the end of the world and just read their Bibles/Qurans, instead of doing internet searches? Are you also saying that they are buying cheap firearms without doing any research?
Sounds like ISIS really is everywhere. /sarc
You wont find out what the poor really think via interent
Damn right. Gotta pull up in your Porsche, get out of the car in your mom jeans and silk shirt, stand right in their face and scream at them that they're gonna get a slapping if they don't tell ya what they really think.
So the NSA doesn't figure out what we think from our on line activities?
Damn, I feel better
Just the rich people they worry about.
Oh, General, Mr Buffett was searching for the local Burger King again!
LOL
"In the hardest places to live – which include large areas of Kentucky, Arkansas, Maine, New Mexico and Oregon."
I didn't know Detroit is in Kentucky.
LD 50 iNSULIN will help take care of it.
Yeah. I want search terms from the "filthy rich." Nebraska? Iowa? Fucking farmers.
My brother in law made a shit pile of money working part time from Nebraska. You can too....
Working 15 hours per week with limited internet skills?
Here we go again...
You know him too? Small world.
Find out how by paying shipping costs of only $6.95*
*per month for 120 months
Ben Bernacke made a shit pile of money working part time from 33 Liberty Street. Oh the irony in a street address.
This list is about 6 years old. Who the fuck searches digital cameras? Point taken though. I'm sure the current results would be worse.
I gave benadryl to a psychotic dog once, to get him to shut up, and he barked even more.
+ 1 cautionary tale
Wait man dont take those,,,I almost gave you the wrong stuff!
Dosage. Correlates to "severe itching" down the list as the hoi polloi are slowly poisoned by food, air and water. Their dogs are canaries.
It is how you find the correct dose of meds for your dog.
Dogs have allergies too.
Progress.
Obama golf handicap...tied for number 21. Go figure.
Get a .357mag. Then you can shoot cheap .38s for paper and save the magnum for larger 'problems'.
.357 is definitely sweet, but .45 ACP makes bigger holes and less overpenetration.
Yea, and don't forget the suppressor - subsonic ya know.
I never knew you cold shoot a .38 from a .357 mag handgun. I suppose it would be too good to be true to be able to shoot a .44 mag from a .45ACP handgun?
The diameter of a .38 special and .357 mag are both ~ .354 of an inch -
The .357 cartridge is slightly longer - so a .38 special cartridge will fit in a .357 revolver - it will just be a little shorter.
A 9MM uses a .355 diameter bullet - as does the .357 SIG round
So all of these rounds make the same diameter hole.
A .44 mag can also fire .44 specials - same thing as .357/.38 they are shorter length - so they still fit.
.45 ACP is a rimless cartridge - can be fired from some revolvers if you use a moonclip - but not a .44 mag.
I think you can modify a .45 Colt revolver to accept .45 ACP with moonclips.
BTW - I have done many internet searches on gun related topics - and I live in a nice neighborhood.
If this article is trying to say that only lower class / poor people like guns then they are wrong.
correct! A fellow can also load 9mm hardball in a .38 or 357 shell and really freak out the ballistics team...
I love the .45.
My first real pistol was a 1917 S&W that shoots .45acp from full moon or half moon clips.
It's my go to gun for things that go bump in the night, because i can load it silently.
A modern version would be a S&W 625.
You can also shoot .45 auto rim cartridges without clips, and they can be shot from a .45 long colt, which is almost identical in dimensions as .44magnum, but most .45LC guns aren't designed to take the pressures of a maxed out .44 magnum.
>460 rowland conversion will give .44mag performance from a model 1911, as long as it's not spot heat treated.
.45acp armor piercing was available for the Thompson 1927.
.460 rowland
http://460rowland.com/about/
Unless your attacker is wearing body armor of any type than the magnum cartridges may be your only hope. I love the age-old handgun caliber debate. :) If I owned a pistol, then I'd probably own a lot of them, use the right tool for the job. But I had to sell all of mine (an rifles too) because we ran out of money.
It turns out that hitting the target consistently and under various conditions is more important than the choice of "Best Big Caliber".
Put another way... After a certain size, how you use it matters more than size alone.
That is what all the white boys say.
Ahh good, I get to be a mythbuster.
Penis sizes do not differ between the races (at least in North America, where our nutrition is better than some places in the world). All those jokes we heard when we were kids about white guys' sexual inferiority were based on a completely contrived fantasy designed to make us feel bad about being white.
The jokes weren't "designed" for anything. Jeez, they are just kids!
Did you ever participate in athletics in college? Ever take a shower with the team? Thought not...
I'm setting my self up with this comment, but I used to think the same thing until I took a v-dog one day-- after 20+ years of marriage my wife asked (with a big grin) "what's up with you?" (pun intended).
Maybe being poor is correlated with being preoccuppied with "antichrist" and "rapture" etc.
That's what they want you to think.
I think antiChrist searches simply correlate with Obama being president.
Probably due to a very poor education.
No, the poor are ready, accepting, and perhaps yearning to die.
It'd be a VERY big problem if a population ready to die, perhaps to martyr themselves were to actually puzzle out the source of their suffering ...
The rich don't have to search for the antichrist. They are the disciples.
I just googled all the easy terms, to increase my property value.
Why would anyone want to get a massage from a baby?
So you get your Illuminati Level IV pin and entry codes to the DUMB atrium?
I almost dated a woman who did "baby massages" as a part time business. She said it calms the babys down. I don't know what her rates were, but she said that she was always on call 24/7. I asked if she would answer her cellphone if we were out fishing on a quiet lake or making love. Yes answered yes. That's the last time I saw her.
The only thing I can think of is too much money available and not enough things to spend it on.
Nobody searches for porn?
This study is as fake as Pamela Andersons tits.
18. GIF for "Pamela Anderson's Tits"
Try beeg dot com.
I declined to participate in the survey.
That was my thought, too. I'd expect it to be #1 on both sides.
That's BS.....I've never thought of any of those things (rich or poor)....No Sex, no sex and no sex, Jew f*cking aliens, or any of the other f'ed up things going on ...BS I think he misses a decimal point ...these things are what was searched for at #10,000 thru 10,020.........((((((Rasberry)))))
I don't doubt that there would be a big difference, but the prevalence of cameras (30%????) and 2 zoolander entries suggest that the guy just assumed that he lived in an easy place and checked his browser history from 2002.
He needs to rethink his inks.
Who is this Hans? Some rich porno guy with a 12 inch dick?
Do not try to baby massage an elph, he'll whack ya with a roller and the pop yer hans with his 38!...no kiddin...
So happy to see Zoolander not having lost mindshare.
Jesus Rice University, the herd's trying to thin itself with a reasonable diet? Two sensible calorie goals?
What is this feeling in me, it seems to be the opposite of hopelessness. Completely foreign.
Thanks, Hedgies.
On the other hand
Hans.
Just let that settle for a while. Google if you must, but know ye be doomed with said info.
Hans.
I'm wealthier than I am and live in a better place than I imagined by these results. Although I confess I did have to translate Apple hardware and software to Linux based equivalences as well as baby massage to wealthy college young women massage. Nonetheless it proves my point that Q99X2 is a perception and not only a physical reality.
"Easiest Places to Live" = "Highest Taxes", "Highest Debt", & "Easiest Places to Google"
Why on Earth is ANYONE (much less comfortable Americans) searching for "vengaboys" in 2014? Are we sure this up to date? Are they using data from 1999?
c'mon, some hits are just timeless
~the vengabus iz cumming, and everybody iz jumpin
from new york to sanfran-ciso, an inter-city disco~
ps. anyone who junks me is jerking off to the anti-christ :)
rock'n'roll survived disco, hair bands and rap; and died in the ninties. eurodance killed it. even now rock requires too much thought from the listener, and joins pop and classical as music niche.
Sounds very Biblical. Where there is too easy living, there is not much interest in spiritual matters. The salt of the earth are detecting something in the air. Judgment. The others are content to ignore it and just watch Zoolander for the 20th time
ZHer's, I"m from No. CA and just spent a little over a year in rural western NC. In the words of Francis Urquhardt form the real "House of Cards" - BBC, 1990's 3 parts. - "I couldn't possibly comment." I ain't touchin' this one.
Politically correct futurists always say we're going to be 'one race' of people of mocha colored skin.
That is completely false. The seeds are being sown for an 25% ubermench and 75% untermench divergence in our species a millenium from now.
"The seeds are being sown for an 25% ubermench and 75% untermench divergence in our species a millenium from now."
Already a done deal!!
Just contrast what you see on the express train from Fiumicino Airport to Rome with what you see on the streets of Rome.
In Simmons' Ilium, the Eloi are kept in 'zoos' on Earth. They are technically adept but don't understand technology unlearning millennia of culture, thought and reason, until they are satisfied with the pleasure of merely existing.
Today's button mashers have regressed to this point, methinks.
I asked some well to do people about elph and they also had no fucking idea what it was either.....
Make a map of the banking centers, and banking transactions and you will find that they correspond tightly with the 'easy-to-live' places.
Through the magic of inflation and government regulatory preference wealth is systematically hoovered from the hard-to-live places and distributed in the easy-to-live places.