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I can't shake the feeling that this will just measure of how willing people are to follow instructions for no reason whatsoever.
by muaddirac 11y ago
I can't shake the feeling that this will just measure of how willing people are to follow instructions for no reason whatsoever.
- sounds 11y agoHere are some obvious signals that I think can be pulled from the data set: • gender • age (since they just straight up ask for it) • rough geo data (if the survey records IP geo information, so assume they are doing that) • economic status • rough tech literacy level
- justinlardinois 11y agoAs far as I know, it's not possible to record respondents' IP addresses with Google Surveys, so I think that one's out. I suppose you could make rough inferences based on the food, weather, and snow questions.
- wingerlang 11y agoThat's what I though, at least while reading the "type 'cat'" one.
- gwern 11y agoThat's probably a trap question, to let you filter out people who aren't paying attention. Similarly, in the 'recognize words' section, I'm fairly sure some of those words aren't real and so you could increase data quality by throwing out anyone who claims to recognize fake words.
- snikeris 11y agoI took my time to answer everything, but didn't type in 'cat'.
- akavel 11y agoI thought about it for a while, and then it occurred to me, that there are actually many ways one could possibly understand that -- thus replying e.g.: - cat - "cat" - 'cat' - panther (not exactly a cat, but kinda -- that's why it was in quotes, no?) - [one could type "cat" in one's terminal] - "Whiskers", etc. (i.e. name of one's cat) then, one could make a typo (thus e.g. "ca" or "catt"), or finally something more or less totally random, given that it's an open question (thus e.g. "no", or "How are you?", or whatever). So, not that stupid a question I thought initially :)
- devbug 11y agoI just pasted a picture to heavy machinery.
- TallGuyShort 11y agoMy phone was going put 'Cat', but I corrected it to match 'cat'. I'd be curious to know how many people on smartphones would do the same.
- dtparr 11y agoTook it on a smartphone. Also overrode to match case. So, at least 2.
- Arelius 11y agonot to mention the obvious ones - Cat - Cat.
- rspeer 11y agoIn a bit of "don't tell me what to do" pique, I typed the cat emoji, . Turns out something in Google Forms uses UCS-2 internally, so it rejected my whole survey. EDIT: I guess Arc isn't very good at this either.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago> Turns out something in Google Forms uses UCS-2 internally, so it rejected my whole survey. Google love Java to bits, and it's UCS-2ish.
- mojuba 11y agoOr as an alternative theory, Randall Munroe wants to know if it's OK to tell everyone when he throws away all his socks and buys a bunch of identical ones.
- Kluny 11y agoI may be exposing my own subjectivity here, but I, personally, did it because Randall asked nicely and I like the things that he does.
- lbebber 11y agoI kept going because the questions were entertaining.
- taco_emoji 11y agoI would've stopped if the questions were boring.