{"id":27,"date":"2015-10-11T02:15:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T02:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willchinda.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2015-10-11T02:33:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T02:33:21","slug":"florida-mans-origin-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willchinda.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/florida-mans-origin-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Man&#8217;s Origin Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hank Green had a great video this week explaining the origins of why &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_FloridaMan\">Florida Man<\/a>&#8221; exists.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tRs-7_BsYNc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated, Florida Man is internet shorthand for the curious phenomenon of absurd and bizarre headlines that begin with those words. For example:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/augustus-sol-invictus-goat-sacrifice\">Florida Man Admits Killing Goat and Drinking Its Blood For Pagan Sacrifice, Would Still Like to be Senator<\/a>&#8221; or<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thesmokinggun.com\/buster\/domestic-abuse\/potato-salad-battery-562934\">Florida Man Attacks Mother With Potato Salad<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As much as the rest of the country would like to think we&#8217;re all bananas down here, the reality has more to do with population and incredibly open government laws that provide reporters with easy access to police records.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just another example of a situation where digital media and increased access to information completely dictates our perceptions.\u00a0It could be our perception of crime getting so much worse, despite <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3577026\/crime-rates-drop-1970s\/\">violent crime rates steadily declining over the past 30+ years<\/a>. It could be our fear\u00a0of terrorism, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/10\/1\/9437187\/obama-guns-terrorism-deaths\">despite actual deaths from terrorism being near zero since September 11th<\/a>. And I can&#8217;t tell you how many times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/adamthierer\/2012\/01\/08\/why-do-we-always-sell-the-next-generation-short\/\">I&#8217;ve heard someone discuss how much worse\/spoiled\/stupid a\u00a0younger generation is from their own<\/a>\u00a0with only anecdotal evidence to back them up.<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s not get started on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/01\/need-know-learning-styles-myth-two-minutes\/\">learning styles<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.willatworklearning.com\/2015\/01\/mythical-retention-data-the-corrupted-cone.html\">pyramids<\/a>,\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/7\/15\/5881947\/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless\">personality types<\/a>\u00a0(my blood is already starting to boil).<\/p>\n<p>The internet has a way of amplifying these perceptions, mostly because we&#8217;re really good at seeing the patterns of what other people are thinking instead of finding the truth. That&#8217;s the challenge of sifting through all this extra information we have at our fingertips, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>The easy path doesn&#8217;t require much effort. A more accurate view of reality takes more work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Hank Green had a great video this week explaining the origins of why &#8220;Florida Man&#8221; exists. For the uninitiated, Florida Man is internet shorthand for the curious phenomenon of absurd and bizarre headlines that begin with those words. For example: &#8220;Florida Man Admits Killing Goat and Drinking Its Blood For Pagan Sacrifice, Would Still Like to be Senator&#8221; or &#8220;Florida &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/willchinda.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/florida-mans-origin-story\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17,18,16,13,15,20,12,19,14],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-florida","tag-florida-man","tag-hank-green","tag-information","tag-internet","tag-learning-styles","tag-media","tag-myths","tag-perception"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willchinda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willchinda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willchinda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willchinda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willchinda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/willchinda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/willchinda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willchinda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willchinda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willchinda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}