<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">Actually, it was "<a href="https://xkcd.com/925/">Cancer </a></div><a href="https://xkcd.com/925/"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div>causes cell phones</a>", but yes, it was great for Informatics. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">I included that cartoon in one of my Informatics textbook chapters, but I'm not sure if Cengage ended up agreeing to pay to license it. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">But (knowing my editor is a member of this list - </font><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Hi e!</span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">) I'll not go into details about permissions.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Cheers</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Mark </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 September 2015 at 14:08, Laurie Savage <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:08327998@pvgc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">08327998@pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">My favourite weird question was "On a scale of 1 to 5, what is your favorite number?" I'm guessing he will be able to use these data to create a hypothesis like "<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>Mobile phones cause brain tumours" (an earlier sketch of his).<div><br></div><div>Laurie </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Laurie Savage<br><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 September 2015 at 12:54, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi, data miners</div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Next year, the Informatics kids will be expected to gather authentic data for their MMOS (multimodal online solution).</div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><a>Today's XKCD</a> includes a Google survey to find 'weird correlations'. </div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">One question asks how good a speller you are on a scale from 1 to 5.</div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Quite cunningly, another question asks you which of these words you know - and there's a list of about 20 obscure words... some of which I strongly suspect do not exist.</div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Fakers or liars will probably indicate they 'know' some words that are known to not exist, thereby giving a self-diagnosis of the honesty of their answers.</div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">I thought it was quite a clever method of validating survey data.</div><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Try it yourself - it's fun.</div><div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div><a href="http://xkcd.com/1572/" target="_blank">http://xkcd.com/1572/</a><span><font color="#888888"><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Lucida,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant:small-caps;text-align:center"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div>Mark Kelly<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></span></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div><span style="font-size:12.6666669845581px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div></span><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it. (Jack Handey)</font></div><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZNy1KTlhHdGVINWc&revid=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZclhYdUpxelZmcmx3amRrYjM1d01mdlJ5WURNPQ"><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a></div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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