Discussion: A short history of US orienteering
in: Orienteering; General
Dec 17, 2010 4:29 PM
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Interesting chart. So what exactly is shown on the Y-axis?
If I were using technical analysis, I'd say the chart indicated a coming break-out to the upside, as indicated by that pennant formation.
If I were using technical analysis, I'd say the chart indicated a coming break-out to the upside, as indicated by that pennant formation.
Dec 17, 2010 5:30 PM
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Over a shorter timespan, without the smoothing:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=oriente...
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=oriente...
Dec 17, 2010 5:52 PM
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So what happened in 1977 that caused such a large jump in the percentage?
Dec 17, 2010 5:54 PM
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feet:
Sport-to-sport comparisons are interesting (one can play with this for ages, of course):
Orienteering vs lacrosse (Glen, repeat your magic!): http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=oriente...
Cricket, most popular sport in the US until the 1890s: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=footbal...
Orienteering vs lacrosse (Glen, repeat your magic!): http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=oriente...
Cricket, most popular sport in the US until the 1890s: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=footbal...
Dec 17, 2010 6:32 PM
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Orienteering vs lacrosse (Glen, repeat your magic!)
I wonder if the recent bump in lacrosse has anything to do with the Buick LaCrosse, a concept car shown in 2000, and a production car that debuted in 2004. I'd imagine that some car-buying guides and maintenance manuals have since been published, for examples.
(That said, the increased popularity in lacrosse is what got the name on the car. There's currently a Jeep Compass, but it will be discontinued in 2012.)
Here's map vs. navigation vs. compass.
I wonder if the recent bump in lacrosse has anything to do with the Buick LaCrosse, a concept car shown in 2000, and a production car that debuted in 2004. I'd imagine that some car-buying guides and maintenance manuals have since been published, for examples.
(That said, the increased popularity in lacrosse is what got the name on the car. There's currently a Jeep Compass, but it will be discontinued in 2012.)
Here's map vs. navigation vs. compass.
Dec 17, 2010 6:41 PM
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Cricket, most popular sport in the US until the 1890s.
Perhaps that gets an added bump from the insect?
Perhaps that gets an added bump from the insect?
Dec 17, 2010 6:43 PM
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feet:
It's case sensitive, so probably that isn't it for lacrosse. I agree that cricket is helped by the insect. A bunch more fascinating ones on my log: http://attackpoint.org/viewlog.jsp/user_133/period...
Dec 17, 2010 7:51 PM
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There's also a rumor (which I heard the head of GM say is apocryphal) that "lacrosse" also has a slang meaning in Canadian French.
Dec 19, 2010 3:52 PM
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Yes, Crosse with an accent on the e (and pronounced cross-ay) has a special meaning in French Canada but lacrosse is lacrosse with the name coming from 17th Century French missionaries who thought that the sticks resembled the shepherds' and bishops' crosses (without the accent) that were, literally in one case and figuratively in the other, used to pull the fallen out of tight places.
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