Most commonly searched fears in U.S. states and DC for 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October is here, and leading up to Halloween it is customary to discuss people’s fears. At the Your Local Security blog on October 6, 2021 there is a post by Alice titled Each state’s most Googled phobia (really fear). She looked at the same list of fears used previously in 2020 in an earlier post on October 12, 2020 titled Your State’s Most-Searched Phobia|2020 which I had blogged about on October 17, 2020 in my post titled Most commonly searched fears in U.S. states and DC for 2020.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I organized those fears into a bar chart listing the number of states with each fear, as shown above including the state abbreviations. For comparison the results for 2020 are shown via a second bar chart. How many states have the same most common fear? Only three: Massachusetts (failure), New York (intimacy), and Tennessee (blood). That’s a paltry six percent.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On October 15, 2019 I had blogged about the Most commonly searched fears for 2019 in U.S. states (and DC), and on April 13, 2019 I had blogged about the Most commonly searched fears in U.S. states for both 2017 and 2018. A table shown above lists the number of states where each fear was most common for all five years from 2017 to 2021. Results vary wildly!

 

The cartoon of a woman at her computer was adapted from this one at Wikimedia Commons.