Impetus: Kars 4 Kids conducts survey to determine grades of courtesy of all 50 United States
I came across this article that declared Georgia amongst the rudest drivers in America, so I was curious to what the criteria actually entailed. Ultimately, the sample size was way, way, way too small at 2,500 correspondents considering the fact that the United States has a population of nearly 320 million, so I don’t think this is nearly that accurate of a survey.
Especially the ranking of Maryland, which somehow scrapes into the top-half of the spectrum as “friendlier” drivers, because the reality is that Maryland has some of the worst drivers on the planet who would rather let entire third-world nations die of genocide before letting you merge in front of them.
However, it’s still not entirely inaccurate either, and despite the strokes being very wide and broad, it’s still entertaining to see the obvious correspondence with stuff like population densities and demographics in relation to how certain places graded.
Continue reading “Would love to cross-reference this with demographic data”
