The xkcd survey

Post by davmre » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:45 PM UTC

heynk wrote: post #195

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)…

Can anyone explain how Google Correlate works? I understand how a brute-forced approach might work, but is there any way of optimizing this?

Post by throwaway999777 » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:48 PM UTC

TJSomething wrote: post #194

lotsofcows wrote: post #138

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Really? I thought it was biased toward native USAian speakers. What the fuck is Cilantro?

Technically that's a bias toward Spanish speakers too, since cilantro is just "coriander" in Spanish, usually referring to the leaves.

Post by juliann » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:51 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)…

Post by cortesoft » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:53 PM UTC

gknoy wrote: post #141

Gravityloss wrote: post #127

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but if you curl them after drying, you have a much smaller pool to find the pair from, the just washed socks (which will be the socks you use the most anyway). So it's faster that way, than to mix them all up and only then match.

My wife has about twenty pairs of socks, and no more than a few of the pairs are the same variety. It's like some masochistic combinatorics problem every single time I fold socks. My kid and I literally were playing "sock go fish" a few times to get him to help (except ... I was more interested in the pairing, rather than taking turns. Doh.) Laundry-folding happiness is increased significantly when I don't have to pl…

Post by debacle » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 5:55 PM UTC

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).