You like science? Pseudoscience? Statistics? Being part of weird projects? Just really passionate about surveys maybe?
Well aren’t you in luck! As you may or may not know (probably may not), the website xkcd, home of the webcomic of the same name and of the incredible What if? articles, has launched a survey full of kinda-weird questions in hopes of getting enough data to analyze it.
What even is the point?
If enough people answer, we have a good chance of finding ‘meaningful’ correlations (yes, just like in science!). The fun fact though is that given the content of the questions, these will be pretty interesting correlations. (Like.. “People who have already flown in an airplane are way more prone not to like cilantro” or stuff like that.)
Sure but why are you talking about it? Well. Because the more people there is, the more ‘accurate’ those correlations will be because we’ll have more data to analyze.
Also, some of you might like to analyze data, and can be interested in having a bunch of it to have fun with.
.. And maybe some of you peeps just like to take surveys, who even knows?
So I’ll just be giving personal (even if weird) data to who-knows-who ? Data will be anonymous. People will just have access to your answers. If that still bothers you though, I would definitely recommend you to avoid this survey.
I’m sold! Where do I sign up?
That’s the kind of energy I like to see! Well once again, the survey is here. Have fun and feel free to share it to everybody you know! The more random the ‘sample group’, the more accurate the correlations!
this survey is a gift to the world
It’s not every day you have a completely valid and scientific excuse to mash the keyboard for a good thirty seconds straight
I predict that my answer to the keyboard-mashing one will be the most common answer, and am curious about what it’ll correlate with.
I probably should have checked off “beer” on the list of foods I dislike, but oh well. (I’ve never had beer, but I dislike wine, hard cider, and creme de menthe/cacao all for the same reason (they taste like being stabbed with countless little needles), which suggests the reason generalises to all alcohol.)
Goddammit, today’s interactive xkcd is ridiculously compelling. *sits here pushing buttons like a lab rat* ;S
Oh, really? Haven’t checked xkcd yet today.
*asks the 8 Ball a question while on laptop*
*sighs*
*retrieves smartphone*
“What are you?”
[wrench]
[upright black rectangle]
[cell phone] [flashlight]
[lollipop] [dragon]
I see.
Speaking of which, anyone know how to make emoji show up on a laptop browser? This is the second time in the past six months a joke has forced me to get out my smartphone in order to see the punchline. (I don’t remember whether I encountered any such jokes before six months ago because I didn’t even have a smartphone then.) It’s annoying.
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wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at philosophy
Evan and I decided to test this.
Star Trek: 12 clicks
My Little Pony: 18 clicks
kettle: 15 clicks
Sapphire & Steel: 16 clicks
beer: 13 clicks
South Africa: 14 clicks
…. this would probably be less mindblowingly hilarious if it weren’t 4:30 in the morning, right?
YOU GUYS
No it is totally as mind-blowing as it sounds
which is to say VERY
This is my new version of the airport game. Best thing ever!
I actually managed to break this one time. I ended up on an article (I wanna say it was the one on aqueducts, but I don’t recall precisely?) where the first link went to another page and the first link on that page took me back to the previous one. So I basically ended up in a loop.
That wasn’t about philosophy.
But I haven’t found any other pages that this’ll happen on yet.
If the link takes you partway down the page, is it the first link from there or the first link from the top of the page? Because if it’s from there, I found a three-part loop first try: Solids –> States of matter#The three classical states –> Bonding of solids –> Solids.
Otherwise it’s 14. (From Hurricane John (2006), the page of the day.)
Actually, time isn’t one of the Euclidean dimensions of space and as such doesn’t behave the same way with dimensions that can be measured in a certain direction. Saying it’s to the left is factually incorrect.
Case in point, I just lost the game.
2009 can be to the left in the same way a song can be blue.
(I saw the “You just won The Game! Congratulations, you’re free!” xkcd strip before knowing what The Game was. It was very confusing, but also meant that when I did learn about it I never took it to heart. Randall Munroe himself gave me a pass. So there. *sticks out tongue*)
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