![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
It's about time I went through polls for which I've not yet posted results and conclusions. I know you can go and just look at the data, but where's the fun in that? There's statistics there! It's only appropriate that I use them to substantiate obviously untrue claims.
Firstly, though - if you haven't already, go to this post and ask me stuff. Please?
And now, with no apparent order...
Results: Poll 606310
A lot of you asked for polls. Some with longwinded sentences like "Yes, please, thankyou, right now, if it isn't too much trouble, seeing as how you're posting anyway, and asking opinions is ever so lovely, and I want to tell you what I really think, and polls are really very fun, and we'll love you forever, especially if it's a fun poll, with a good assortment of amusing answers, and a cherry on top."
65.6% of you caught on to the idea that all the options for that question were written so that they'd make sentences on the results page. Remarkably, 87.5% of you had figured it out by the end of the second question, which makes for some improper sentences and something of a learning experience.
Especially if you want to learn about improper sentences.
The question about ages is likely to be refined some, now that I have a very definite idea of the range that ages on my flist fall into. It'll probably be from 10 to 50, 2 years at a time. [This interlude of sanity is over]
In writing, 54.5% of respondents couldn't be arsed getting all upset about swearing. 6.1% favour some restraint in the use of textswears, since meaningless intensifiers are - by their very definition - meaningless. 3% say that quietly swearing in small type is their limit, and exhort those who disagree to please kindly fuck off. 3% don't effing mind any amount of effing textswears, so long as it isn't effing explicit. 12.1% either didn't understand the question, or like textswears to hide behind not-so-innocent strings of punctuation, and they say that any who don't agree can just go and $%&#ing well &*@# themselves. 21.2% like the bewildering assortment of fake swearing that can be found in popular culture, from the Mandarin for "motherless goats of all motherless goats" to the streetslang of Shadowrun. Lastly, 0% adopt a zero-tolerance approach to those who textswear, which suggests that 100% will find a reasonably explicit way to tell you to mind your own business - should you give them cause to do so.
Lastly, there was my attempt at a democratic psychiatric assessment. At the extreme ends of the scale, 4 of you think I've completely lost it, while 2 think I'm completely sane. I think those two mean it in the same way as Mal thinks that River is a person, actual and whole. The voting seems to suggest that I'm something like 47.9% sane. I'm not sure if this means that I'm lucid and coherent 47.9% of the time, or that I'm 52.1% of the way out of my tree all the time (either horizontally or vertically, though I'd appreciate a mat for the former).
Results: Poll 611208
This was a very, very short poll. 10.3% of you declared that you'd wave to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
princesslaurene, but don't seem to have done so yet. 86.2% waved, which tells me that the vast majority of people will just up and do something if they can do it simply by clicking on a circlythingy then a clickybutton.
Results: Poll 598732
This poll was long-ish - into the realm of 26 questions. I'm going to go through them backwards.
26.5% of you prefer zombie minions to zombie movies - which is, I suppose, fair enough. It means that 73.5% realise that there's only a very few people who can take over the world with zombie movies. Or, for that matter, that zombie minions are much, much better at doing the dishes than any DVD ever will be.
Given a choice, 58.3% of people would prefer never ever seeing yellow worn by anyone, to hearing Coldplay's Yellow. Conversely, 41.7% think that music is far more interesting and important than attempts at making up absolute fashion rules. If you were to all look at the stars, those 41.7% would see how they shine for them. The rest would be thinking about how much better dressed all those stars could be.
75.5% of you feel that the xylophone is a wondrous and lovely musical instrument, underappreciated and misunderstood for centuries and worthy of a place in the music scene of the future. 24.5% of you feel that they're ridiculous, irritating childrens' toys masquerading as instruments, and would like to bring the zero-tolerance approach to bear with an axe and a box of matches. To put it differently, given xylophones, three quarters of you would be happy. The rest would be warm.
Fifty-eight point three percent of poll respondents favour a more verbose and loquacious approach to communicating ideas, thoughts or concepts to others, often involving an inflated number of words designed to give both precision and gravity to the point, argument or intent of whatever it is that is being expressed, be it thought, idea, concept, argument, exposition or discussion. 41.7% like things terse.
67.3% of you value the viola as an instrument. This is, perhaps surprisingly, less than for the xylophone. 32.7% of you are quite partial to the idea of the viola as firewood, which means a happy medium where everyone is warm and music is provided by hitting little wood blocks with a silly-looking mallet.
18.4% of you feel that Linux surrounds us and penetrates us; that it binds the Internets together. 81.6% of you think it's probably quicker and easier to use the Force to go and choke Bill, so that Microsoft makes things that are worth using.
For the benefit of Hamlet, 53.1% of people feel it actually is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, than to take up arms and, by opposing, end them. This opens up the possibility for research into a new field - the democratic soliloquy. Except that, of course, the creative application of a case of tomatoes can make any soliloquy just about as democratic as you want it to be.
73.5% of you think that silver is pretty and shiny. 26.5% of you are, apparently, werewolves that talk like Gollum. I'm not sure why a werewolf would talk like Gollum, but there you have it.
27.1% of you like random numbers, while 72.9% of you prefer random hugs. I'm not sure how many of you hug dice, but I'm certain that some kind of middle-ground must exist here.
40.8% of you vastly prefer the Red Queen to Dancing Queen - indicating that 59.2% of people seem to prefer ABBA to Alice. This raises the interesting possibility of the Red Dancing Queen, who gathers together the entire attendance of a party and tells them to conga as fast as they can to stay where they are. Which, as often noted by Pterry, is generally what happens anyway.
49% of you are particularly keen on a postholer, probably on account of how it digs holes for posts. 51% prefer postboxes, probably because they're not dirty... and sharp. Should I ever hold an opening for a postbox, I expect those 51% to turn up; the other 49% can help dig the holes to make sure it stays where it's supposed to, because a stolen postbox would be Very Odd Indeed.
36.7% of you are more tolerant of odd socks than of odd people, though this may just be because it's hard to wear people about on your feet. Conversely, 63.3% of people prefer odd people to odd socks; it's unclear how many of these want to try to make odd people by running pairs of twins through their washing machine until one inexplicably vanishes.
Given the choice, 55.1% of people seem to prefer new foods to new drinks. No amusement for this one - it was just pure curiosity.
Only 20.8% of you would be interested in a mystery flight; the other 79.2% would prefer to be involved in a murder mystery. While a mystery flight involves somewhat less chance of an untimely death, murder mysteries greatly minimise the risk of picking up an exotic illness after a night of hard drinking with the locals.
It seems that retiring and becoming a llama is about 58% more desirable than retiring and becoming a duck. This nicely complements other research currently being undertaken, which suggests that doorknobs and ankles are both incredibly more desirable than cold.
The breakdown between kind words and deeds suggests that 75.5% of you greatly approve of helping the rather cliche little old lady across the road. The other 24.5% of you feel it's more appropriate to tell her, in passing, that the green of her eyes really does go well with the 'walk' light on the opposite side of the street - but 'don't walk' isn't her colour at. all.
83.3% of you seem to prefer the idea of justice delayed, should the world keep on with its being imperfect and all. 16.7% of you like the sound of justice denied, which suggests that either you're guilty, or you want to be a crime-fighting vigilante adored by the public and vilified by your employer, the owner of a major daily newspaper.
59.2% of you are icon lovers, given to the occasional adoring and envious stare at certain well-crafted collections of ten thousand pixels apiece, and declaring your salivating worship of a user picture with a comment that, more often than not, involves less-than signs and threes. The other 40.8% of you feel compelled to mock away at the memes, institutions and ideas of society, sometimes including those who are given to the occasional adoring and envious stare at certain well-crafted collections of ten thousand pixels apiece, and declaring their salivating worship of a user picture with a comment that, more often than not, involves less-than signs and threes.
59.2% of you feel that a housewarming is incredibly more fun than Gregory House, especially since housewarmings come with all the fun of getting thoroughly drunk while the hosts still don't have the faintest clue where their own kitchen and lavatory are. 40.8% of you prefer to sit back and watch Hugh Laurie get all grumpified on TV, rather than stumble about lost, confused and rather well-preserved in your own house, on a frantic search for a room you really should be able to find.
77.6% of you prefer garden gnomes to garden forks, and with good reason. It takes quite a bit of effort to impale your own foot with a garden gnome, after all. That said, 22.4% of you don't mind the idea of dressing up a garden fork with a little hat and pickaxe and lantern to stand out in a garden bed where passersby can look in confusion, and drunk uni students can nick it for photos or scavenger hunts.
10.2% of you are quite fond of Flying High. The other 89.8% presumably know where the forklift is, and would rather spend their time with something completely different.
6.1% pick Eric Arthur Blair over Eric the Viking - which is, in a way, fairly nice. Eric the Viking established that there's no edge of the world, while Eric Blair established that there'd be a future with no individuality or freedom, but there can be an edge of the world if everyone just pretends there is. On the whole, I apologise for this question; while it has the necessadry randomness, it's also painfully obscure.
57.1% of people seem fond of Disco Inferno, which you never think of the same way ever again after a creature wins the jackpot in a casino in Dungeon Keeper 2. Only 42.9% can think of any need, use or desire for a disco ball; well, that, or they don't like the idea of all that burning.
59.2% of people can ask nicely for chocolate. 40.8% have let their addiction take contol; they give in to their hunger, and come to the dark side (probably because the dark side of the chocolate is richer and nicer). Personally, I side with the addicts - but, asking nicely here and there can improve your chances of successfully feeding a chocolate addiction.
A whole 4.1% of you think that bridges should have tolls; I'm prepared to bet that these people a) own toll bridges; b) learned all about the economics of such infrastructure, or c) wanted to differentiate themselves by not picking 'troll'. 95.9% of you think that any decent bridge needs to have a troll; whether this means a troll who takes a coin or two in exchange for not just squishing and eating you, or a troll who says 'OMG ur bridge crossing suxx0rz lolz', is up to you to decide for yourselves.
Lastly, 20.4% of you seem to like the idea of things being ad hoc, which - for the moment - happens to be a fancy way of saying "I won't be doing another poll quite like this one any time in the forseeable future". 79.6% of you preferred the idea of it being ad infinitum, which, by now, is surely what this post seems to be.
And that's about it for the poll results. Whee!
Firstly, though - if you haven't already, go to this post and ask me stuff. Please?
And now, with no apparent order...
Results: Poll 606310
A lot of you asked for polls. Some with longwinded sentences like "Yes, please, thankyou, right now, if it isn't too much trouble, seeing as how you're posting anyway, and asking opinions is ever so lovely, and I want to tell you what I really think, and polls are really very fun, and we'll love you forever, especially if it's a fun poll, with a good assortment of amusing answers, and a cherry on top."
65.6% of you caught on to the idea that all the options for that question were written so that they'd make sentences on the results page. Remarkably, 87.5% of you had figured it out by the end of the second question, which makes for some improper sentences and something of a learning experience.
Especially if you want to learn about improper sentences.
The question about ages is likely to be refined some, now that I have a very definite idea of the range that ages on my flist fall into. It'll probably be from 10 to 50, 2 years at a time. [This interlude of sanity is over]
In writing, 54.5% of respondents couldn't be arsed getting all upset about swearing. 6.1% favour some restraint in the use of textswears, since meaningless intensifiers are - by their very definition - meaningless. 3% say that quietly swearing in small type is their limit, and exhort those who disagree to please kindly fuck off. 3% don't effing mind any amount of effing textswears, so long as it isn't effing explicit. 12.1% either didn't understand the question, or like textswears to hide behind not-so-innocent strings of punctuation, and they say that any who don't agree can just go and $%&#ing well &*@# themselves. 21.2% like the bewildering assortment of fake swearing that can be found in popular culture, from the Mandarin for "motherless goats of all motherless goats" to the streetslang of Shadowrun. Lastly, 0% adopt a zero-tolerance approach to those who textswear, which suggests that 100% will find a reasonably explicit way to tell you to mind your own business - should you give them cause to do so.
Lastly, there was my attempt at a democratic psychiatric assessment. At the extreme ends of the scale, 4 of you think I've completely lost it, while 2 think I'm completely sane. I think those two mean it in the same way as Mal thinks that River is a person, actual and whole. The voting seems to suggest that I'm something like 47.9% sane. I'm not sure if this means that I'm lucid and coherent 47.9% of the time, or that I'm 52.1% of the way out of my tree all the time (either horizontally or vertically, though I'd appreciate a mat for the former).
Results: Poll 611208
This was a very, very short poll. 10.3% of you declared that you'd wave to
princesslaurene, but don't seem to have done so yet. 86.2% waved, which tells me that the vast majority of people will just up and do something if they can do it simply by clicking on a circlythingy then a clickybutton.Results: Poll 598732
This poll was long-ish - into the realm of 26 questions. I'm going to go through them backwards.
26.5% of you prefer zombie minions to zombie movies - which is, I suppose, fair enough. It means that 73.5% realise that there's only a very few people who can take over the world with zombie movies. Or, for that matter, that zombie minions are much, much better at doing the dishes than any DVD ever will be.
Given a choice, 58.3% of people would prefer never ever seeing yellow worn by anyone, to hearing Coldplay's Yellow. Conversely, 41.7% think that music is far more interesting and important than attempts at making up absolute fashion rules. If you were to all look at the stars, those 41.7% would see how they shine for them. The rest would be thinking about how much better dressed all those stars could be.
75.5% of you feel that the xylophone is a wondrous and lovely musical instrument, underappreciated and misunderstood for centuries and worthy of a place in the music scene of the future. 24.5% of you feel that they're ridiculous, irritating childrens' toys masquerading as instruments, and would like to bring the zero-tolerance approach to bear with an axe and a box of matches. To put it differently, given xylophones, three quarters of you would be happy. The rest would be warm.
Fifty-eight point three percent of poll respondents favour a more verbose and loquacious approach to communicating ideas, thoughts or concepts to others, often involving an inflated number of words designed to give both precision and gravity to the point, argument or intent of whatever it is that is being expressed, be it thought, idea, concept, argument, exposition or discussion. 41.7% like things terse.
67.3% of you value the viola as an instrument. This is, perhaps surprisingly, less than for the xylophone. 32.7% of you are quite partial to the idea of the viola as firewood, which means a happy medium where everyone is warm and music is provided by hitting little wood blocks with a silly-looking mallet.
18.4% of you feel that Linux surrounds us and penetrates us; that it binds the Internets together. 81.6% of you think it's probably quicker and easier to use the Force to go and choke Bill, so that Microsoft makes things that are worth using.
For the benefit of Hamlet, 53.1% of people feel it actually is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, than to take up arms and, by opposing, end them. This opens up the possibility for research into a new field - the democratic soliloquy. Except that, of course, the creative application of a case of tomatoes can make any soliloquy just about as democratic as you want it to be.
73.5% of you think that silver is pretty and shiny. 26.5% of you are, apparently, werewolves that talk like Gollum. I'm not sure why a werewolf would talk like Gollum, but there you have it.
27.1% of you like random numbers, while 72.9% of you prefer random hugs. I'm not sure how many of you hug dice, but I'm certain that some kind of middle-ground must exist here.
40.8% of you vastly prefer the Red Queen to Dancing Queen - indicating that 59.2% of people seem to prefer ABBA to Alice. This raises the interesting possibility of the Red Dancing Queen, who gathers together the entire attendance of a party and tells them to conga as fast as they can to stay where they are. Which, as often noted by Pterry, is generally what happens anyway.
49% of you are particularly keen on a postholer, probably on account of how it digs holes for posts. 51% prefer postboxes, probably because they're not dirty... and sharp. Should I ever hold an opening for a postbox, I expect those 51% to turn up; the other 49% can help dig the holes to make sure it stays where it's supposed to, because a stolen postbox would be Very Odd Indeed.
36.7% of you are more tolerant of odd socks than of odd people, though this may just be because it's hard to wear people about on your feet. Conversely, 63.3% of people prefer odd people to odd socks; it's unclear how many of these want to try to make odd people by running pairs of twins through their washing machine until one inexplicably vanishes.
Given the choice, 55.1% of people seem to prefer new foods to new drinks. No amusement for this one - it was just pure curiosity.
Only 20.8% of you would be interested in a mystery flight; the other 79.2% would prefer to be involved in a murder mystery. While a mystery flight involves somewhat less chance of an untimely death, murder mysteries greatly minimise the risk of picking up an exotic illness after a night of hard drinking with the locals.
It seems that retiring and becoming a llama is about 58% more desirable than retiring and becoming a duck. This nicely complements other research currently being undertaken, which suggests that doorknobs and ankles are both incredibly more desirable than cold.
The breakdown between kind words and deeds suggests that 75.5% of you greatly approve of helping the rather cliche little old lady across the road. The other 24.5% of you feel it's more appropriate to tell her, in passing, that the green of her eyes really does go well with the 'walk' light on the opposite side of the street - but 'don't walk' isn't her colour at. all.
83.3% of you seem to prefer the idea of justice delayed, should the world keep on with its being imperfect and all. 16.7% of you like the sound of justice denied, which suggests that either you're guilty, or you want to be a crime-fighting vigilante adored by the public and vilified by your employer, the owner of a major daily newspaper.
59.2% of you are icon lovers, given to the occasional adoring and envious stare at certain well-crafted collections of ten thousand pixels apiece, and declaring your salivating worship of a user picture with a comment that, more often than not, involves less-than signs and threes. The other 40.8% of you feel compelled to mock away at the memes, institutions and ideas of society, sometimes including those who are given to the occasional adoring and envious stare at certain well-crafted collections of ten thousand pixels apiece, and declaring their salivating worship of a user picture with a comment that, more often than not, involves less-than signs and threes.
59.2% of you feel that a housewarming is incredibly more fun than Gregory House, especially since housewarmings come with all the fun of getting thoroughly drunk while the hosts still don't have the faintest clue where their own kitchen and lavatory are. 40.8% of you prefer to sit back and watch Hugh Laurie get all grumpified on TV, rather than stumble about lost, confused and rather well-preserved in your own house, on a frantic search for a room you really should be able to find.
77.6% of you prefer garden gnomes to garden forks, and with good reason. It takes quite a bit of effort to impale your own foot with a garden gnome, after all. That said, 22.4% of you don't mind the idea of dressing up a garden fork with a little hat and pickaxe and lantern to stand out in a garden bed where passersby can look in confusion, and drunk uni students can nick it for photos or scavenger hunts.
10.2% of you are quite fond of Flying High. The other 89.8% presumably know where the forklift is, and would rather spend their time with something completely different.
6.1% pick Eric Arthur Blair over Eric the Viking - which is, in a way, fairly nice. Eric the Viking established that there's no edge of the world, while Eric Blair established that there'd be a future with no individuality or freedom, but there can be an edge of the world if everyone just pretends there is. On the whole, I apologise for this question; while it has the necessadry randomness, it's also painfully obscure.
57.1% of people seem fond of Disco Inferno, which you never think of the same way ever again after a creature wins the jackpot in a casino in Dungeon Keeper 2. Only 42.9% can think of any need, use or desire for a disco ball; well, that, or they don't like the idea of all that burning.
59.2% of people can ask nicely for chocolate. 40.8% have let their addiction take contol; they give in to their hunger, and come to the dark side (probably because the dark side of the chocolate is richer and nicer). Personally, I side with the addicts - but, asking nicely here and there can improve your chances of successfully feeding a chocolate addiction.
A whole 4.1% of you think that bridges should have tolls; I'm prepared to bet that these people a) own toll bridges; b) learned all about the economics of such infrastructure, or c) wanted to differentiate themselves by not picking 'troll'. 95.9% of you think that any decent bridge needs to have a troll; whether this means a troll who takes a coin or two in exchange for not just squishing and eating you, or a troll who says 'OMG ur bridge crossing suxx0rz lolz', is up to you to decide for yourselves.
Lastly, 20.4% of you seem to like the idea of things being ad hoc, which - for the moment - happens to be a fancy way of saying "I won't be doing another poll quite like this one any time in the forseeable future". 79.6% of you preferred the idea of it being ad infinitum, which, by now, is surely what this post seems to be.
And that's about it for the poll results. Whee!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-11-19 06:20 am (UTC)That upsets me. My favorite sweater is a yellow turtleneck. How about this for a statistic: 58.3% of your f-list makes me sad.
Fifty-eight point three percent of poll respondents favour a more verbose and loquacious approach to communicating ideas, thoughts or concepts to others, often involving an inflated number of words designed to give both precision and gravity to the point, argument or intent of whatever it is that is being expressed, be it thought, idea, concept, argument, exposition or discussion. 41.7% like things terse.
hee!
27.1% of you like random numbers, while 72.9% of you prefer random hugs. I'm not sure how many of you hug dice, but I'm certain that some kind of middle-ground must exist here.
Is it bad that as soon as you mentioned random numbers, my head started adding everything in that sentence to equal 8?
The breakdown between kind words and deeds suggests that 75.5% of you greatly approve of helping the rather cliche little old lady across the road.
THAT'S what I could do!
59.2% of people can ask nicely for chocolate. 40.8% have let their addiction take contol; they give in to their hunger, and come to the dark side (probably because the dark side of the chocolate is richer and nicer).
::chomps on chocolate covered pretzel::
no subject
Date: 2005-11-19 06:35 am (UTC)It's only bad if you don't take a moment to go through how you did it.
And again, you gloat about the chocolate. Grrr.
no subject
Date: 2005-11-19 06:41 am (UTC)27.1%
2 + 7 = 9
9 - 1 = 8
yay!
72.9%
7 + 2 = 9
9 + 9 = 18
8 (from the first equation) + 18 = 26.
2 + 6 = 8