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I'd be more on board with your lake theory if Minnesota has more lakes if using Wisconsin 's criteria. Otherwise whoever has the largest lakes can just change the definition of lake to weed out everyone else. As far as I know, a lake is simply a body of water surrounded by land. Ponds are just small lakes. Some seas are just large lakes.
They do. If Minnesota and Wisconsin used similar criteria, Minnesota would have something like 40k more.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/which-has-more-lakes-minnesota-or-wisconsin/
It literally says if you use Wisconsin's criteria, Wisconsin comes out ahead. You're just repeating the same argument. The only new info is the USGS puts Michigan ahead but doesn't state the criteria used so it's hard to say. And Wisconsin comes ahead of you count surface area and the portions of the the various great lakes residing in each state.
What? Where does it say that?
Also, The article mentions Lake Michigan, not the state
Since you weren't specific, here's the source paragraphs for both claims:
15k is larger than 12k.
Last claim:
Emphasis mine.
Did you not link the article you thought? Cause it clearly mentions both states. Michigan is definitely mentioned more than just Lake Michigan.
Your quoted segments clearly reference the different criteria (10 acres versus 2.2).
And the word “Michigan” appears exactly once in the article: in the second bit you quoted where it clearly refers to the lake.
I feel like you simply never read my initial comment at this point if that's your response.
And I realized I literally just meant to say Minnesota, not Michigan, so you're correct there. But it's a moot point.