{"id":3110,"date":"2014-12-24T08:26:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T14:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2014-12-24T08:26:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T14:26:33","slug":"map-of-the-week-dudebro-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/12\/24\/map-of-the-week-dudebro-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of the Week &#8211; Dudebro America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/316906\/the-dude-map-how-american-men-refer-to-their-bros\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quartz<\/a> blog they have a pretty awesome (if a bit frivolous) set of maps showing which colloquial vocative expressions men use for each other throughout the United States. Expressions like &#8220;pal,&#8221; &#8220;buddy,&#8221; &#8220;dude,&#8221; and &#8220;bro&#8221; are among the most commonly used. Strictly for the sake of curiosity and giggles, I superimposed the maps for <em>dude<\/em> and <em>bro<\/em> in order to get a sense of where American men are likely to utter a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22Dude%2C+bro%2C+she's+upstairs+man%22\" target=\"_blank\">sentence using both terms<\/a>, e.g. &#8220;Dude, bro, she&#8217;s upstairs man&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/12\/dudebro.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3111\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/12\/dudebro.png\" alt=\"dudebro\" width=\"872\" height=\"551\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/12\/dudebro.png 872w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/12\/dudebro-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 872px) 100vw, 872px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would appear that the American &#8220;dudebro belt&#8221; is roughly donut-shaped and centered around the Dallas\/Fort Worth <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dallas%E2%80%93Fort_Worth_metroplex\" target=\"_blank\">metro area<\/a>, wherein around three million men are likely to call each other &#8220;bro&#8221; but not so much &#8220;dude.&#8221; There is also a lesser dudebro region centered around Kalamazoo, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to get to see the serious academic side of this frivolous exercise, do check out the most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/jackgrieveaston\/presentations\">presentations from Jack Grieve<\/a>, wherein he explains how they brought together a multi-billion word corpus of geotagged English usage, courtesy of Twitter, and how they performed hot-spot algorithms for smoothing the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Quartz blog they have a pretty awesome (if a bit frivolous) set of maps showing which colloquial&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damned-lies-and-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}