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| # | Comment | Survey |
|---|---|---|
| 781 | lizzie: sorry you were depressed by my survey... gilly:Suggestions for alternative breakdowns (send to dpolicar@kenan.com if you prefer)? I picked the ranges based on likely min and max values and the number of answers I wanted to list. ***so, round to the nearest 5 and pick the appropriate category -- but I'll keep this in mind for future surveys, anyway. | How much do you weigh? |
| 782 | Editing this to avoid it getting too damned long... [...] The match is not lit[...] ***Later [...] hadn't thought about the oxygen-in-the-match aspect.[...] I don't mind questions like this...[...] lisashea: Granted, this survey in particular isn't too illuminating. OTOH, the moon-gravity survey of the same type "MEANT" something about how well people understand the physics of falling bodies, which interests me at least as much as their weight, hair color, preference in superpowers, etc. Presumably, had the author asked "Do you correctly understand how falling objects operate on the moon?" (yes, no, etc.) or "How well do you understand physics?" (pretty well, not at all, etc.) nobody would have objected, right? Same basic information being gotten at, only the style is different. As for threatening -- if you don't feel threatened by the possibility of appearing ignorant or foolish to others, then it can't. I suspect that doesn't describe everyone here, least of all me... I definitely get a flash of "gee, what if I'm saying something dumb?" anxiety when I post here. | Say a doorless, windowless room is completely full of nitrogen gas. (This means the room is completely sealed) A match is lit inside the room, what happens. |
| 783 | Neither, but they both weigh more than a ton of gold does. | Which weights more, a ton of feathers or a ton of bricks? |
| 784 | depends on the person, but it's hardest for me to lose weight. | Speaking in terms of weight, which do you think is harder to do? |
| 785 | romkey: It wasn't physical conservation but the implicitly transitive nature of the verb "prefer" that I had in mind. Perhaps I should have phrased the question as "Do you prefer apples to oranges, or do you prefer oranges to apples?", allowing the jointly exhaustive options "former", "latter", and "neither". Leaving the transitive verb objectless forced me as a matter of grammar to include the fourth choice ("I prefer both") but I didn't think it represented a logical possibility, still don't, and am amused by its popularity. seven -- the survey was actually prompted by the wiseass answer in the first place (my usual response to "that's like comparing apples to oranges" is "I prefer oranges to apples, how 'bout you?" [though I've recently been inspired to change it to "You can, but you need to overload the comparison operator."]), but I decided to make it a survey when my Brazillian SO pointed out that apples are considered a delicacy in Brazil whereas oranges (far and away the superior fruit in any right-thinking individual's mind, IMHO) are relatively disparaged. | Do you prefer apples or oranges? |
| 786 | Home schooling, with the assumption that I'll be hiring tutors and making other arrangements as appropriate (that is, not that I'll be personally/exclusively educating my child). | If you had children and money was no object, how would you choose to educate your offspring? |
| 787 | All of the insects and most of the rodents (in the latter case I'm assuming they are wild and not someone's pet), but not bats... I like bats, they're kinda cute. | If you spotted the following in your living quarters, which would make you nervous or uneasy until it was gone? |
| 788 | Not one of these... 7-8 hours. | How many hours of sleep do you get (average) each night? |
| 789 | No, no, no, no, NO! | Lets say, given the chance to become a vampire (actual, fangs, killed by the sun, etc.) would you accept or deny? |
| 790 | though I had to count them... | How many teeth do you have? |
