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Re: The xkcd survey

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=== 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.

Re: The xkcd survey

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post #61

=== 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.

The order is randomized, apparently. Hubris was mid-pack for me.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Thermostat: Warmer or Colder?

How about less intense? At the office I bring a sweater in the summer and so sometimes strip to my undershirt in the winter....

Re: The xkcd survey

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=== 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.

Are they un-googleable jargon? I googled all of them, and about half of those searches yielded bupkis. Phoropter was the only medical term I found.

Re: The xkcd survey

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> On a scale of 1 to 5, which number is your favorite? > 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Chuckle...

My favorite 'survey' question ever...

> 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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