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Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by fvirexi » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:20 PM UTC

justinlardinois wrote: post #123

sounds wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

As far as I know, it's not possible to record respondents' IP addresses with Google Surveys, so I think that one's out. I suppose you could make rough inferences based on the food, weather, and snow questions.

The keyboard part will help quite a bit, at least. Being from Norway, the occasional æ-ø-ås are quite revealing.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by samdb » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:23 PM UTC

Was strangely fun answering these. Can't wait to chart some of this data on http://chartblocks.com

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by myblake » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:24 PM UTC

samdb wrote: post #182

Was strangely fun answering these. Can't wait to chart some of this data on http://chartblocks.com

Yeah I was starting to design some visualization for it in my head!

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by myblake » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:25 PM UTC

gefh wrote: post #158

Balgair wrote: post #137

I wonder how many responses of : Cantaloupe');DROP TABLE Food;-- ol' Randal is going to get (or some permutation thereof). Figuring that Randal is pretty smart, I bet he has a piece of code to parse out that. Still, anyone here have a good hack that can just nuke days of his time whilst completing this form? Only other one I can think of him using is (for Matlab): Cantaloupe'); clear all; clc; close all;

The data gets collated in a Google sheet, so I think he'll be fine. Or at least if he finds a bug, it'll get fixed.

Yeah I suspect google sheets is not obviously vulnerable to sql injection at this point in the game.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by ashwn » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:25 PM UTC

no idea why i just took that

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by drdeca » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:27 PM UTC

knodi123 wrote: post #90

Xcelerate wrote: post #72

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It's always the number everyone thinks no one else will choose.

son of a bitch. I swear I thought I was being genuinely random.

I also chose 37, but with the expectation that it would be a common response.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by dghughes » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:27 PM UTC

I laughed at the last one I've done that and I certainly say go for it, there's nothing like uniformity in regards to underdress!

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by dghughes » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:28 PM UTC

a3n wrote: post #114

emidln wrote: post #4

Found out that gnome 3 has some keybinding for dynamically changing screen resolution. I don't know which keybinding that is, but I found it during the mash the keyboard test.

Did anyone mash about a fifth of the window, select all, copy, then paste until it filled up and then some?

I hit Enter a few times and I didn't like the jaggedness of the box. So I had to clean up my randomness a bit.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by drdeca » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:30 PM UTC

Kluny wrote: post #153

a3n wrote: post #116

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I've been waiting almost sixty years, have yet to see that message. Still trying.

3dark5me.

We must imagine Sisyphus happy?

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by skykooler » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:30 PM UTC

octatoan wrote: post #175

kittenfluff wrote: post #7

=== 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).

I don't know why, but I was able to recognize the non-words instantly (with one exception) even though I didn't know the meaning of every single "real" one. (Peristeronic, etc.) Perhaps a remnant of my spelling-bee days.

I knew "Peristeronic" was a real word, because I'd seen it somewhere before. Turns out it was another xkcd: https://xkcd.com/798/