Who else? > Type five random words five random words
"type five random words here"
The xkcd survey
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#102Who else? > Type five random words five random words
But there wasn't a quotation mark. I considered starting with the words "type", "five", "random", and "words" - but I realized that that wasn't very random at all (very very low entropy.) So I truly came up with extremely random words.
can it really be considered random if you discarded all of the first words you thought of?
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#103I can't shake the feeling that this will just measure of how willing people are to follow instructions for no reason whatsoever.
Here are some obvious signals that I think can be pulled from the data set:
• gender
• age (since they just straight up ask for it)
• rough geo data (if the survey records IP geo information, so assume they are doing that)
• economic status
• rough tech literacy level
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#104I am incredibly excited by this survey specifically because of the question regarding sandwiches.
I finally will have some meaningful data for my extensive definition of sandwiches as a structural form!
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#105"Pick a number from 1 to 100" I wonder how many of that will not be 42 :D
66 and 33
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
>I have to match socks between several different styles Do I understand correctly that you throw all your socks into a drawer/container, and when you need a pair, you go and have to find two matching ones? This may be cultural (or even familial) thing, but I always curl two socks up into a ball so that they stay together. When I need a pair, I just take one ball, uncurl it, and voila.
But do you curl matching socks or not?
If you have many different styles, you need to go hunt around and find matches. Curl or not just delays the matching problem, it does not solve it.
Having all the socks be the same makes matching an O(1) problem.
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#108=== 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.
I checked them after I'd submitted the survey. The only real words that I hadn't ticked were "regolith" (I was almost sure it was a real word, but I didn't know the meaning of it), "phoropter" (I believed it could be a piece of engineering terminology, but again didn't know the meaning) and "peristeronic" and "apricity" (I would have given better than evens that these were made up).
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#109"Which of these can you do reasonably well?" Should really have a "none" option.
That would be equivalent to not ticking any of the boxes.