Most people think that distance is the only way to compare states.
The problem with this is that there is no way to properly measure how far apart the two states are. To accurately compare states, we have to use a metric that is a bit more subjective.
That’s why there is a metric that people use to compare distances. The most common one is the “average” or “distance traveled” distance. If you traveled from north to south, you would travel roughly the same distance. If you traveled from south to north, you would travel more or less the same distance. So we can calculate the average distance traveled by all the states in the US, by state, and by county. The result is a number that can be compared.
The US average is about 8,000 miles and the average distance traveled by a county is about 1,000 miles. Our results show that in general, the farther away a state is from the center of the country, the greater the distance traveled. But since the average distance for all states is about 8,000 miles, we can also compare the state average to the county average.
We see that the farther a state is removed from the center of the country, the greater the distance traveled by its residents. But the county average is an average of all counties where people live, so the state average isn’t an accurate estimate of the distance people actually travel in each state. This suggests that our results must be biased.
We’re right, but this seems unlikely. The county average is actually a very accurate measure of the distance people travel in each state, so that’s what we’re using. And people really live in the country, so you’d expect the state average to be an accurate reflection of people living in each state.
And we do get a lot of results from our search which are actually based on the county average, so thats not a big problem either.
Our actual results were skewed by searches for “distance from florida to texas” (although those results are pretty much evenly split between the distance from florida to texas and the distance from texas to florida).
I think this is because of the way google is calculated. The county average is taken from the closest county to the search terms we’re looking for. So if we want to get results from a state that’s a long way away from florida, we’ll have to include a county that is closer to the state we’re looking for.
Distance from florida to texas is based on the distance between the state and the nearest city. This is the best possible way to get results, but it could be a bit misleading if you wanted to get results for places that are close together but not that close.