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If you did a survey on this, what fraction of adults do you think would get it right? 80%? Remember, this system is supposed to be used by anyone, including the

If you did a survey on this, what fraction of adults do you think would get it right? 80%? Remember, this system is supposed to be used by anyone, including the poorly educated and recent immigrants.

akvadrako 9y ago
Well anyone who has ever encountered another 12am or 12pm before, which is fairly common. I would guess 99.9%
- comicjk 9y ago
  If you assume that people remember the solutions to every problem they've ever encountered, I would not like to use the kind of user interface you would create! Here's the Wikipedia entry on the subject, which describes how 12am/12pm is actually a common confusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noon_and_midnight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noo... Incidentally, 99.9% is going to be a bad guess for almost any survey answer because of the "lizard people effect" (4% of US adults say that the country is controlled by lizard people, 7% are not sure).
  - akvadrako 9y ago
    Dude, yes, more people will believe the Earth is flat than 12am in noon. The first time I worked outside the USA I was also pointed to that wikipedia article, but it in no way reflects reality on the streets.
    - croon 9y ago
      > The style manual of the United States Government Printing Office used 12 a.m. for noon and 12 p.m. for midnight until its 2008 edition, when it reversed these designations.[14][15]
astura 9y ago
99.99%
- comicjk 9y ago
  9999 out of 10000? Seriously? Even in a group of geniuses, 10 in 10,000 would answer wrong simply by being absentminded. And the US population is not all geniuses. Here's the wikipedia article, indicating that this is a common confusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noon_and_midnight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noo...
  - astura 9y ago
    >9999 out of 10000? Seriously? Yes.
    - deleted 9y ago
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If you did a survey on this, what fraction of adults do you think would get it right? 80%? Remember, this system is supposed to be used by anyone, including the poorly educated and recent immigrants.

akvadrako 9y ago

Well anyone who has ever encountered another 12am or 12pm before, which is fairly common. I would guess 99.9%

comicjk 9y ago
If you assume that people remember the solutions to every problem they've ever encountered, I would not like to use the kind of user interface you would create! Here's the Wikipedia entry on the subject, which describes how 12am/12pm is actually a common confusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noon_and_midnight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noo... Incidentally, 99.9% is going to be a bad guess for almost any survey answer because of the "lizard people effect" (4% of US adults say that the country is controlled by lizard people, 7% are not sure).
- akvadrako 9y ago
  Dude, yes, more people will believe the Earth is flat than 12am in noon. The first time I worked outside the USA I was also pointed to that wikipedia article, but it in no way reflects reality on the streets.
  - croon 9y ago
    > The style manual of the United States Government Printing Office used 12 a.m. for noon and 12 p.m. for midnight until its 2008 edition, when it reversed these designations.[14][15]

astura 9y ago

99.99%

comicjk 9y ago
9999 out of 10000? Seriously? Even in a group of geniuses, 10 in 10,000 would answer wrong simply by being absentminded. And the US population is not all geniuses. Here's the wikipedia article, indicating that this is a common confusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noon_and_midnight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noo...
- astura 9y ago
  >9999 out of 10000? Seriously? Yes.
  - deleted 9y ago
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