Data Proves Once And For All Canadians Are More Polite Than Americans

  • 8 years ago
Researchers from McMaster University analyzed over three million tweets from Canada and the U.S. and found that Canadians tended to use much more upbeat language than Americans on the whole.

It's not news that Canadians are nice. Maybe some of the nicest people on the planet. 
But nicer and more polite than Americans? Now there's data to prove it. At least when it comes to Twitter users. 
Linguists from McMaster University analyzed over three million geo-tagged tweets posted to the social media site between February and October 2015. 
A summary of the findings notes, "Disproportionately 'Canadian words' incl

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