Don’t Look Down
Pop quiz, hot-shot (who could be a comfortably cool-shot): Which state do you think will buy these Danby Air Conditioners at the highest rate?
Before you make your guess you should know that the sales map below displays the per capita rate of purchases in that state. That is, if 1 of the 1 million Montanans and 39 of the 39 million Californians buy it, they will be the same color. We don’t commit this graph gaffe, well-illustrated by xkcd:
Now, promise you didn’t already look, and write your guess about which state buys these at the highest rate in lipstick here:
Excellent. Now you can look down and see if you were right (at this time).
To make things fair, we’ll make our own guess . We think that Washington State will buy the most of these per capita.
“Washington State?” you exclaim, spilling coffee on your monitor and smudging the lipstick which you used to make your guess, “it rarely gets hot there!”
Precisely. Our logic, which by the time you read this may already have proven hilariously faulty, is this: People in hot locales already have central A/C — it’s a requirement for any home or apartment there. Owning a unit in a milder region like the Pacific Northwest, however, is more elective.
That said, in our experience living in Seattle we found that people didn’t buy A/Cs until “forced” by the one or two yearly heatwaves. As of this writing the forecast calls for 76 degrees and partly sunny today (Monday). Warm, but hardly blistering.
That said, Washington State consistently ranks high on rankings of educational achievements, and those brainy folk may draw the conclusion that, since they were uncomfortably hot last year in the summer, they may experience similar discomfort soon without some means of conditioning the air.
All of that said, we wouldn’t put it past those North Dakotan trolls to buy a bunch just to prove us wrong.
How’d you do? How’d we do?
