<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 "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 class="gmail_signature"><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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi, data miners</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Try it yourself - it's fun.</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div><div class="gmail_default" 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 class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" 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><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>
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