![]() ![]() Below is a map of the 2012 presidential election results. In addition to the relevance this quiz has to what we’ve learned in Networks, we can see some evidence of network effects and information cascades (specifically the aspect of copying others, especially those we align with). ![]() And the results are pretty accurate! I am from Scarsdale, NY – just a 10 min drive to Yonkers, the city that the quiz predicted. Using Bayes’ Theorem: P(from X region|answer) = / P(answer), Josh Katz was able to calculate where you (the one taking the quiz) are most likely from. ![]() As an example, I took the quiz and posted my results below.Īfter answering each of the 25 questions, a similar heat map is shown depicting which regions answered the most and least like you had. The three smaller maps show which answer most contributed to those cities chosen to be the most similar to you. The colors on the large heat map correspond to the probability that a randomly selected person in that location would respond to a randomly selected survey question the same way that you did. The questions asked in this quiz are based off the Harvard Dialect Survey, a linguistics project begun in 2002 by Bert Vaux and Scott Golder. The data for the quiz and its results come from more than 350,000 survey responses collected between August and October, 2013. The results of this quiz are shown in heat maps that give us a visualization of American regional dialects. This link brings us to a quiz developed by New York Times graphics editor Josh Katz. ![]()
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