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The xkcd survey

349 pointsby rivertalmost 10 years ago

34 comments

jawnsalmost 10 years ago
If you like this sort of thing, you may also enjoy:<p>1) My website Correlated.org (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.correlated.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.correlated.org</a>), which has been generating weird correlations based on users&#x27; survey responses for more than four years.<p>2) Spurious Correlations (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tylervigen.com&#x2F;spurious-correlations" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tylervigen.com&#x2F;spurious-correlations</a>) by Tyler Vigen, which also offers wacky correlations, but based on publicly available datasets rather than survey responses.<p>3) Google Correlate (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;correlate&#x2F;draw" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;correlate&#x2F;draw</a>), which allows you to draw a curve, then find search terms whose popularity over time matches the shape you drew.
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emidlnalmost 10 years ago
Found out that gnome 3 has some keybinding for dynamically changing screen resolution. I don&#x27;t know which keybinding that is, but I found it during the mash the keyboard test.
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muaddiracalmost 10 years ago
I can&#x27;t shake the feeling that this will just measure of how willing people are to follow instructions for no reason whatsoever.
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Balgairalmost 10 years ago
I wonder how many responses of :<p>Cantaloupe&#x27;);DROP TABLE Food;--<p>ol&#x27; Randal is going to get (or some permutation thereof). Figuring that Randal is pretty smart, I bet he has a piece of code to parse out that. Still, anyone here have a good hack that can just nuke days of his time whilst completing this form? Only other one I can think of him using is (for Matlab):<p>Cantaloupe&#x27;); clear all; clc; close all;
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kittenfluffalmost 10 years ago
=== SPOILER ALERT! ===<p>The most interesting question, to me, is the one about which words you know the meaning of.<p>About half of them aren&#x27;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).
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11thEarlOfMaralmost 10 years ago
&gt; On a scale of 1 to 5, which number is your favorite?<p>&gt; 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5<p>Chuckle...
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brianwawokalmost 10 years ago
So is the last question not a common thing? Because I do it every year or so, but my wife thinks I am crazy.
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cpfeiferalmost 10 years ago
Hope the results will be as entertaining as the Color Survey: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.xkcd.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;05&#x2F;03&#x2F;color-survey-results&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.xkcd.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;05&#x2F;03&#x2F;color-survey-results&#x2F;</a>
irixusralmost 10 years ago
Thermostat: Warmer or Colder?<p>How about less intense? At the office I bring a sweater in the summer and so sometimes strip to my undershirt in the winter....
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Walkmanalmost 10 years ago
&quot;Pick a number from 1 to 100&quot;<p>I wonder how many of that will not be 42 :D
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lekashmanalmost 10 years ago
I am incredibly excited by this survey specifically because of the question regarding sandwiches.<p>I finally will have some meaningful data for my extensive definition of sandwiches as a structural form!
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abruzzialmost 10 years ago
Is the submit not supposed to work on iOS? Kind of a let down to spend 10 minutes filling it out, then the submit button doesn&#x27;t do anything.
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ohitsdomalmost 10 years ago
I&#x27;ve never had so much fun taking a survey.
stedanielsalmost 10 years ago
I wonder how much the dynamic URLs to the forms are playing a part in this. Each refresh of the comic [1] and homepage [2] gets a different form URL. Are these being associated with other data from the xkcd.com domain..? And how much has it messed up Randall to have such shenanigans defeated by a direct form URL being submitted to Hacker News.<p>In fact, how do we know that the form URL submitted to Hacker News is one of Randalls?<p>Dang should probably change the URL to the comic permalink: [1]<p>Though I am late to the party and this might not get noticed.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1572&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1572&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;</a><p>Edit: Actually refreshing the comic URL [1] is getting only a range of URLs to forms. More often than not the forms answers are in a different order, I suppose to either prevent bias, or encourage it and monitor it.
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spacehomealmost 10 years ago
I spent 15 minutes filling it out only for Google to tell me &quot;Wow, this file is really popular! It might be unavailable until the crowd clears.&quot;
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pravjalmost 10 years ago
My answer to &#x27;Write any 5 random words&#x27; :<p><pre><code> &#x27;Moon landing was a hoax&#x27;</code></pre>
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_lce0almost 10 years ago
I like that it was allowed to put negative numbers of siblings&#x2F;twins .. which I did :)
pdkl95almost 10 years ago
&quot;There was an error submitting your form response. Please wait a bit and try again.&quot;<p><i>sigh</i>
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ddlathamalmost 10 years ago
Is there any reason the results or at least the summary page are not already visible?
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hitekkeralmost 10 years ago
I have a google form like this for Couchsurfers who wish to stay a few nights in my apartment. I believe my questions might be little bit more on the insane side though.
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ArekDymalskialmost 10 years ago
Was it proper thing to stop myself from writing &quot;five random words are here&quot; as a response to &quot;Write five random words&quot;?
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moubarakalmost 10 years ago
After wasting time on this i get &quot;Wow, this file is really popular! It might be unavailable until the crowd clears. Try again.&quot;
an4rchyalmost 10 years ago
That was a fun survey... would be great to see the visualizations that come out of this data set
VikingCoderalmost 10 years ago
Who else?<p>&gt; Type five random words<p>five random words
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hudellalmost 10 years ago
&quot;Which of these can you do reasonably well?&quot;<p>Should really have a &quot;none&quot; option.
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a3nalmost 10 years ago
&quot;five random words&quot;
samdbalmost 10 years ago
Was strangely fun answering these. Can&#x27;t wait to chart some of this data on <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chartblocks.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chartblocks.com</a>
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dghughesalmost 10 years ago
I laughed at the last one I&#x27;ve done that and I certainly say go for it, there&#x27;s nothing like uniformity in regards to underdress!
jcralmost 10 years ago
discussion:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10158352" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10158352</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10158498" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10158498</a>
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ashwnalmost 10 years ago
no idea why i just took that
tedchsalmost 10 years ago
The link here is different than the link from the comic, is this OK?
r3blalmost 10 years ago
Well, it&#x27;s totally random alright.
wageslave420almost 10 years ago
Anything for xkcd.<p>Much respect. salute! o7
veddoxalmost 10 years ago
Kinda pointless, the whole thing - though I bet some statistician is going to publish some deep-insight paper from this data :D
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