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Posted by diskodave on Oct-01-2009 19:37:

Depression vs Rain (kinda crazy)

Cool article on the comparing Google searches for correlating trends - crazy how rain and depression sync up:

http://www.intrends.org/2009/09/dep...mptoms-of-rain/

Are you suffering from the symptoms of depression? Have you ever wondered if your depression symptoms are from rain? That’s right, rain causing depression. Well, thanks to Doctor Google, we’re able to pinpoint how many searches are made for a specific keyword or phrase during a set timeframe. To investigate our hypothesis of rain being an catalyst in depression, we compare the number of searches made for the word depression against the number of searches for rain. To rephrase, people tend to search for the word rain when the weather conditions are rainy outside, so we want to measure the rain search frequency and compare it to the frequency of depression search queries. Take a look at the chart, the similarities are quiet shocking:

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Posted by wing on Oct-01-2009 20:41:

but i love rain

quote:
To rephrase, people tend to search for the word rain when the weather conditions are rainy outside

well i've never done that

wackk asss conclusion

Posted by stren on Oct-01-2009 20:51:

what about singing in the rain ?

Posted by R.j. on Oct-01-2009 21:20:

or listen to the rhythm of the falling rain

or Rain from Mortal Kombat?

Posted by Acton on Oct-01-2009 21:25:

Rain doesn't depress me in the slightest, but threads without gifs do.

Posted by Lira on Oct-01-2009 21:55:

I love rain so much it makes me wet

Posted by Acton on Oct-01-2009 21:56:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
I love rain so much it makes me wet

No pun intended!

Posted by R.j. on Oct-01-2009 21:57:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
I love rain so much it makes me wet

yyyeaaaaahhhhh jus' lahke t'at.

Posted by Domesticated on Oct-02-2009 03:18:

That is bullshit.

Google takes searches from all over the world, where it could be raining or sunny at any time of year.

Posted by diskodave on Oct-03-2009 05:59:

Yes, google is widely used.. but more so in some countries then others. That data is a POOL of data... which means if a ton of people are searching for conditions like RAIN... and a ton of people are searching for DEPRESSION.. then that data pool is likely in winter-ish rainy months AND that data pool has an increased search in depression. It doesn't take many braincells to make that connection and figure that out. Also, look how similar the movements are...

Is the 'random' spike in SUMMER during the middle of the year just a coincidence? lol

Posted by Joss Weatherby on Oct-03-2009 06:13:

quote:
Originally posted by Domesticated
That is bullshit.

Google takes searches from all over the world, where it could be raining or sunny at any time of year.

You do realize that they can localize pretty accurately where searches are coming from right?

Posted by Rose on Oct-03-2009 07:24:

So because I love the rain and hate the sun does that make me a depressed person? FUCK you

Posted by Lira on Oct-03-2009 07:30:

quote:
Originally posted by diskodave
Is the 'random' spike in SUMMER during the middle of the year just a coincidence? lol

Summer in red, winter in yellow, spring in green, autumn/fall are represented by the different shades of blue:

And, here's a more localised pattern:

As you can see, it's regular but they're out of sync when compared to the graph above... because I chose a country from the Southern Hemisphere

Posted by FuzzQi on Oct-04-2009 01:46:

Hey I'm sure you considered this too but: if it's raining do you google rain? And if you're depressed do you google depression?

It'd be good to compare the weather in an area and see what people post on Twitter or FB to test your hypothesis imo.

Posted by Silky Johnson on Oct-04-2009 02:03:

I'm only happy when it rains. I'm only happy when it's complicated.

Posted by Sushipunk on Oct-04-2009 02:59:

quote:
Originally posted by jennypie
I'm only happy when it rains. I'm only happy when it's complicated.

Garbage

Posted by Arbiter on Oct-04-2009 06:45:

That's nice, but I can't replicate their data, or find any comparable correlation between the two search terms in any location over any time period.

For instance, here's US data for last year:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=rain...ate=2008&sort=0

Not much of a correlation.

"depression" and "economy" on the other hand...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=econ...ate=2008&sort=0

Now that's pretty good.

Posted by we_R_DNA on Oct-04-2009 18:41:

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.” ~James Dickey

Posted by FuzzQi on Oct-05-2009 06:43:

quote:
Originally posted by Arbiter
That's nice, but I can't replicate their data, or find any comparable correlation between the two search terms in any location over any time period.

For instance, here's US data for last year:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=rain...ate=2008&sort=0

Not much of a correlation.

"depression" and "economy" on the other hand...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=econ...ate=2008&sort=0

Now that's pretty good.

If only Google Trends could give us R Squared