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The Gyllenhaal Experiment

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Re: The Gyllenhaal Experiment

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Post by BEEdwards »

tobr wrote: post #59
eternalny1 wrote: post #51

Brutal. Those were far more difficult than expected, I generally veered off path around half-way on most of them. Very interesting experiment, my pride notwithstanding (sp?).

> I generally veered off path around half-way on most of them. That's something misleading about this visualisation... It makes it look like you got it more wrong because you have a letter wrong early in the word, even if every letter after it is right.

I get what you're saying, but the cool path thing is unique paths not correctness of spelling.

Re: The Gyllenhaal Experiment

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Post by Sniffnoy »

I really don't like the interface here. It is way too easy to accidentally hit the wrong button and spoil what you're doing. I had to delete my cookies for the page in order to get around the "no going back" after I accidentally hit the wrong button.

Re: The Gyllenhaal Experiment

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Post by fancyfish »

sexy_seedbox wrote: post #69

Those "Mc" vs "Mac" surnames are tough.

Fun fact: "Mac" is the original Irish surname prefix meaning "son of," and "Mc" is the Anglicized form. McDonald = Son of Donald. As is usual, Irish names are patronymic meaning they're relating to the male's lineage. A daughter would be "Nic" (daughter of the son of) and wife "Mhic" (wife of the son of).

Then why so few "Nic"s and "Mhic"s? The Anglicized form isn't so particular about gender, so females use "Mac/Mc."

The "O'" prefix as in "O'Donnell" means "descendant of," along with its female variants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_name

Re: The Gyllenhaal Experiment

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Post by ClassyJacket »

cannam wrote: post #10

Oh that was disappointing - I hadn't heard of one of them so I hit what I thought was the "skip" button, and it took me straight to the results of all of the questions without letting me try any of the rest. I realise that this is because I am stupid - there is a warning, but I thought it was just warning me I wouldn't be able to try that question again, not that I wouldn't be able to try any of them. (It said that y…

The same thing happened to me

Re: The Gyllenhaal Experiment

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Post by schlowmo »

wumms wrote: post #70

Has anybody else also problems with a buggy input field? I tried writing "Palahniuk". Here I stopped typing after the h: PPALPPALAHPPALPPALAHAN

Yes, I also had the same issue with Chrome 72 on Android. Probably saved myself some shame though.

Re: The Gyllenhaal Experiment

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Post by ezequiel-garzon »

js2 wrote: post #19
Pigo wrote: post #11

>Chuck Palahniuk I've been reading his books since I found out who wrote Fight Club in 1999. My brain does NOT want to remember how to spell his name. It makes me feel like I have a learning disability.

I can never spell "bureaucracy" correctly without assistance. I always have to spell check it. Sometimes I can't even get close enough to spell check. I can't think of any other English words I have such trouble with.

Spanish imported it as burocracia, much easier!

Re: The Gyllenhaal Experiment

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Post by StavrosK »

phaedryx wrote: post #62
abecedarius wrote: post #42

Went through five celebrities before the first I recognized. Would be nice to see how many of us can spell e.g. Dijkstra.

I've probably read his name more times than the names of these celebrities.

I'd never even heard of Peekaboo Street or whatever her name is before. I got almost everyone else right, at least.

Re: The Gyllenhaal Experiment

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Post by jrochkind1 »

js2 wrote: post #19
Pigo wrote: post #11

>Chuck Palahniuk I've been reading his books since I found out who wrote Fight Club in 1999. My brain does NOT want to remember how to spell his name. It makes me feel like I have a learning disability.

I can never spell "bureaucracy" correctly without assistance. I always have to spell check it. Sometimes I can't even get close enough to spell check. I can't think of any other English words I have such trouble with.

Yep, that's one of the main ones I can never spell either!

It sometimes help if I try to remember "bureau". bureaucracy is an organization governed by bureaus. But if I think about it too much, I just lose the ability to spell bureau too.

Re: The Gyllenhaal Experiment

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Post by __david__ »

tobr wrote: post #59
eternalny1 wrote: post #51

Brutal. Those were far more difficult than expected, I generally veered off path around half-way on most of them. Very interesting experiment, my pride notwithstanding (sp?).

> I generally veered off path around half-way on most of them. That's something misleading about this visualisation... It makes it look like you got it more wrong because you have a letter wrong early in the word, even if every letter after it is right.

Agreed, I would have loved to see it more like a detour along the correct spelling. Almost like a character based diff.
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