Interesting (to me anyway) update: after not getting results from my first attempt, I re-took the quiz, with several new questions, and this time it did give me a results map. I was "most similar" across a swath of the deep south, with Atlanta one of my "similar cities", but sort of surprisingly, the other two cities were Richmond and Norfolk, VA. I actually did live in Norfolk for two years as a child of 5-6. But I never returned to Virginia after that and have had no connection to the area since. And, since I've lived in Florida for the last 15 years, there's no available data on my computer or my browsers that would connect me to that area.
I'm not sure what that means, but I do find it pretty interesting that it identified me as a Southerner, with my Kentucky/Florida history, and actually picked a city I lived in as a child. Doug Fields Tampa, FL From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Fields Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 5:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [TV orNotTV] TV orNotTV] NOTTV: Harvard Dialect Survey in NYT I still have the browser window open with the blank results page. It's been open for well over 15 minutes now. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get a map result, regardless of how long I wait. Doug Fields Tampa, FL From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Scripps Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 4:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] TV orNotTV] NOTTV: Harvard Dialect Survey in NYT On Dec 22, 2013, at 3:16 PM, Melissa Pollak <[email protected]> wrote: Third time, still no answer(s). I suspect that in my case, there are no answers. Although I've now lived in the Washington, DC area most of my life, I was born and raised in the Deep South - to European parents. It took me several attempts in both Safari and Firefox to get it to complete as well. I had to let the results page sit for about 30 seconds before anything appeared. The color contours on the generated map were darkest red in the areas where I've spent the most time; the highlighted cities were Grand Rapids, where I grew up; Detroit, where I've never spent more than a night; and Buffalo, where I've never been. I expected a little more New England flavor to my results; I'm from Massachusetts, my mom grew up there and much of my speech I took from her (enough that, when in a college linguistics class, the professor wrote the words 'Stu' and 'stew' on the board, and I was the only person in the room to say them differently; he immediately pegged me as being from somewhere in New England.) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
