=== SPOILER ALERT! === The most interesting question, to me, is the one about which words you know the meaning of. About half of them aren't real words. I assume this question is used partly as a gauge of vocabulary (how many of the real words do you recognize) and partly of honesty (how many of the fake words do you claim to recognize).
The xkcd survey
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#62=== SPOILER ALERT! === The most interesting question, to me, is the one about which words you know the meaning of. About half of them aren't real words. I assume this question is used partly as a gauge of vocabulary (how many of the real words do you recognize) and partly of honesty (how many of the fake words do you claim to recognize).
And the first word in the list, hubris, refers a personality trait that the question is likely to reveal. Well played.
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#63So is the last question not a common thing? Because I do it every year or so, but my wife thinks I am crazy.
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#66How about less intense? At the office I bring a sweater in the summer and so sometimes strip to my undershirt in the winter....
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#67=== SPOILER ALERT! === The most interesting question, to me, is the one about which words you know the meaning of. About half of them aren't real words. I assume this question is used partly as a gauge of vocabulary (how many of the real words do you recognize) and partly of honesty (how many of the fake words do you claim to recognize).
Some of them were definitely highly specific jargon to medical fields and the like. I'm betting fewer of them are made up than you think.
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#68Who else? > Type five random words five random words
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#69> On a scale of 1 to 5, which number is your favorite? > 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Chuckle...
> On a scale of 1 to 10, what's your favorite candy?
I originally heard it on a "Senseless Survey" radio segment.
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#70"Pick a number from 1 to 100" I wonder how many of that will not be 42 :D