Percentages would be more illustrative than absolute values, I feel. It looks like the visualisation partially accounts for relative proportion, with the width of the branches, but it's not a linear scale.
The Gyllenhaal Experiment
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#102Whatever this author has done to the input field has really screwed it up on my phone. I type "Kae" and it just ends up as "KaekaeKae", any attempts to hit backspace just duplicate the input text again and again.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Yes, and it’s a very cool way to show that, but they turned it into a game where you want to get the spelling right.
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#104>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.
For me it is _guarantee_. I've tried so hard. I've practiced, tried mnemonics, but after a few weeks I'll need to spell it again, and it's gone.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about "eau", like French for water?
Okay got it, that will help. I’ve just made a mental note between bureau and eau de toilette. Thanks! Edit: this got me wondering about bureau’s etymology. It’s a strange one: The story of the word bureau is one of substitutions. In its original French, bureau originally named a “coarse woolen cloth,” particularly baize, the green, felt-like fabric that covers card and pool tables. Historically, bureaus draped desks,…
Chest of drawers is how it's used in Swedish too. (And also for government or other agency.)
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I'd never even heard of Peekaboo Street or whatever her name is before. I got almost everyone else right, at least.
I think it's age specific. If you're in the right age group you've heard of most of them. I got most wrong because I'd never heard of them, but Picabo Street is just a little older than me and she was well known in the late 90s.
I'm almost 40, but I guess it's because I'm Greek, so I'd never heard of her.
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#107>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.
Just remember how to spell bureaucrat and you'll be A-ok.
I still trip out on tongue and related brethren.
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I cannot spell bureau. It trips me up even typing it. Maybe this is the thread that will have finally jammed it into my brain. I'll get back to you in a week or so. :-)
I always think of Jim Carry in Bruce Almighty spelling out B-E-A-Utiful Surprisingly it helps with words that have that 'eau' mash of vowels.
Doesn't apply to bureau, but I'm 100% there with you for the word beautiful. I simply can't hear the word in my heard without hearing Jim Carrey spell it out.
Same thing with P-A-R-T-Y? 'Cause we gotta!
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#109Oh 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…
Yeah, I fell victim to that as well. Had to open in incognito to get round it. There's also a really annoying scrolling feature where when you click in the text box the page scrolls down to hide the person's photo. No idea why they implemented that.