Ranking the Friendliest/Most Polite States
Every region in the U.S. has its own communication style, from drawling Southern hospitality to spitting your words out in a New York minute. We know the stereotypes, but what does this look like in everyday digital writing?
While digital writing lacks the communication cues that come from body language and oral intonation, the written word still carries tone. And tone matters. It’s the personality, character, and attitude behind words and—when assessed—can say a lot about both message and messenger.
To close out the year, QuillBot analyzed the tone of user input—or text that a user put into a QuillBot tool during a specific use—to identify which states are the friendliest and the most polite when writing online. This analysis revealed some clear patterns, a few contradictions, and one particularly surprising finding: Washington is both the friendliest and the least polite state in the nation.
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