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How does the UK have the β€οΈ but only northern island had it and the rest of the uk was π.
it's an example of simpson's paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
a worked example: if england/scotland/wales all use heart β€οΈ 49% and use tears of joy π at 51%, and then northern ireland was to use heart β€οΈat 100%, you can imagine this would tip the whole uk over
even more freaky, you could make all 4 constituent countries use heart β€οΈ at 49%, make each constituent use a different unique emoji πππ₯°πΌ at 51% each, and then the aggregate would show that heart β€οΈ is still the most used across the UK
now consider for each place on this map, they are ranking more than just 2 emojis. the map itself says that tears of joy π is only scoring 5% worldwide, and that's 1st place. with margins of 5% and under to be deemed winner, it's no wonder funky effects show up
Thanks for this. If you know then you know.
Statistics scare me π β€οΈ
Volume. They only use heart emojis in morse code to communicate all their messages in NI. Also the entire government website and all companies start and end their webpage with a mandatory 600-heart header/footer, for security.