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If I'm reading this right, the results were gathered via setting up a website, spreading the word, and allowing anyone visiting the website to participate. I'd
by CobrastanJorji 5y ago
If I'm reading this right, the results were gathered via setting up a website, spreading the word, and allowing anyone visiting the website to participate. I'd expect these results would mostly only be relevant to the "very online."
- in_cahoots 5y agoYeah, these results don’t pass the smell test. As a woman, I sincerely doubt the percentages quoted for terms like pessary and doula- if you and your peers aren’t having children you’re unlikely to have heard of them. And doulas are a more recent phenomenon in the US, I doubt many women over 60 or women in lower socioeconomic classes are familiar with the term. Same for men. I can’t believe most men know what a checksum is. This test says more about the population of people who took it than anything else.
- Nebasuke 5y agoIt looked reasonable to me. Pessary was part of regular sex education for my school. I was surprised the numbers were so low, but this might be sex education in the US not discussing this. Checksum you'll encounter as a term when you use newsgroups, torrents and often on the download page as an MD5 checksum when you download software.
- in_cahoots 5y agoI just learned about pessary last month, after my second child and two different sex ed curricula. And what percent of American adults use newsgroups or torrents, or even download software these days? It’s surely not the majority (software downloads notwithstanding).