The xkcd survey • Hacker News Board

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by jdiez17 » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 2:50 PM UTC

QuantumRoar wrote: post #48

Walkman wrote: post #44

"Pick a number from 1 to 100" I wonder how many of that will not be 42 :D

I chose an approximation of pi and later e. But I was very close to just typing 42 :)

Heh, I chose an approximation of τ and then 99.999999. I'm not as original as I thought!

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by stronglikedan » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 2:51 PM UTC

brianwawok wrote: post #29

So is the last question not a common thing? Because I do it every year or so, but my wife thinks I am crazy.

I do the buying all the same thing for the new, but I don't throw out the old. They go into reserve for when nothing else is clean. I keep them in a separate drawer.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 2:52 PM UTC

VikingCoder wrote: post #11

Who else? > Type five random words five random words

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Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by ErikRogneby » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 2:52 PM UTC

jawns wrote: post #6

If you like this sort of thing, you may also enjoy: 1) My website Correlated.org ( http://www.correlated.org ), which has been generating weird correlations based on users' survey responses for more than four years. 2) Spurious Correlations ( http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations ) by Tyler Vigen, which also offers wacky correlations, but based on publicly available datasets rather than survey responses. 3)…

Is your correlated.org data-set or result-set available bulk or via API?

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by cpfeifer » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 2:52 PM UTC

Hope the results will be as entertaining as the Color Survey: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 2:53 PM UTC

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Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by smackfu » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 2:56 PM UTC

Walkman wrote: post #44

"Pick a number from 1 to 100" I wonder how many of that will not be 42 :D

I bet 37 is pretty popular.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by smackfu » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 2:57 PM UTC

Gravityloss wrote: post #40

brianwawok wrote: post #29

So is the last question not a common thing? Because I do it every year or so, but my wife thinks I am crazy.

I think that is very wasteful. http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_freshwater/freshw...

Lots of socks are polyester.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by JoeAltmaier » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 2:57 PM UTC

brianwawok wrote: post #45

Gravityloss wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that is very wasteful. http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_freshwater/freshw...

I mean, I run 6 days a week so my running socks get beat up pretty bad. When they are dead, I need to throw them out. So my options are: 1) Buy 1 new pack of socks, throw out 6 old socks - repeat every month. Doing it this way I have to match socks between several different styles. or 2) Put 4 packs of socks, throw out all of my socks, repeat 4x less often. Also I have no matching to do, as all of my socks are the sa…

My son just picks two in the dark and wears them. He wanted an outward sign of his nerd cred. If they matched, he used to pick again. But he stopped doing that, because if he really didn't care, he would wear matching socks too. Has he reached some higher level of Nerdvana?

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by smackfu » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 2:58 PM UTC

jcr wrote: post #2

discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10158352 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10158498

Interesting, the dupe detector allows both https and http versions of a site.