<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 href="http://xkcd.com/1572/">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/">http://xkcd.com/1572/</a><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 class="gmail_signature"><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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