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In that space, I wanted to say PI, but unfortunately they only allow ints...
Did you also pick e?
No, I went with 4:
a) it's even
b) 2+2
c) 2*2
d) 2^2
The xkcd survey
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's always the number everyone thinks no one else will choose.
Hypothesis: People think even numbers aren't as "random" and odd numbers are more "random". That leaves us with 1,3,5,7,9. 1 and 5 both divide 10 and don't seem so "random" to us, I guess. That leaves us with 3, 7, and 9. 33, 77, 99, i.e. numbers with repeated digits don't seem so "random". That leaves us with 37, 39, 79. And 9 maybe (not sure if all people subconsciously think this way) isn't that "random" because i…
I absolutely agree with your reasoning, but personally I chose even numbers both times ;-) They "feel nicer".
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#243Kinda pointless, the whole thing - though I bet some statistician is going to publish some deep-insight paper from this data :D
right - thanks for the link, I haven't been on the xkcd site in a while (really need to catch up ;-) )
I do think the downvoting is uncalled for though, after all, it's not like the questions weren't pointless, and you could reasonably call Randall Munroe a statistician of sorts..
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What are a couple of different ways you would use "fleek" in a sentence? Only, I want to start using it but don't want to sound like a fool.
You must accept that you will sound like a fool just for using this word. You can use it for anything you want to show satisfaction/approval for. React.js on fleek, eyebrows on fleek, uptime on fleek
"Eyebrows on fleek" is definitely most popular, but "uptime on fleek" is now one of my favorite phrases and will be used liberally.
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I thought about it for a while, and then it occurred to me, that there are actually many ways one could possibly understand that -- thus replying e.g.: - cat - "cat" - 'cat' - panther (not exactly a cat, but kinda -- that's why it was in quotes, no?) - [one could type "cat" in one's terminal] - "Whiskers", etc. (i.e. name of one's cat) then, one could make a typo (thus e.g. "ca" or "catt"), or finally something more…
I included the quotes, just to be cute.
I included the quotes and then typed here with a colon after it.
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#246Found 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.
Sigh. I hit "Enter" and it submitted the form without letting me finish. Now they will never know if I'm a dog or a cat person...
hit back button, continued.
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#247=== 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).
There’s a list of which words are real and which are fake on the wiki at http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1572:_xkcd_Survey#.... The fake words aren’t even in the Oxford English Dictionary – I checked.
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#248If 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)…
Whoa! Getting a 500 on Google Correlate. First time I've ever hit a 500 on Google Services.
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#249"Pick a number from 1 to 100" I wonder how many of that will not be 42 :D
I tried to use 0.999..., but the form wouldn't accept it.
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Did you also pick e?
No, I went with 4: a) it's even b) 2+2 c) 2*2 d) 2^2
e) 2↑↑2 f) 2↑↑↑2 g) 2↑↑↑2 …