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thingsiplay@kbin.social to Memes@lemmy.ml ·
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HTML is a disease and MP3 a Star Wars robot

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HTML is a disease and MP3 a Star Wars robot

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thingsiplay@kbin.social to Memes@lemmy.ml ·
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    I mean, how serious are these surveys? I can see myself answering HTML is an STD as a joke.

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      And JS is the cure. Obviously.

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        I got diagnosed with Hyper Transmittable Meat Leprosy 5 years ago… At least I have JavaScript to keep the worst of the symptoms at bay.

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          It’s amazing how one pain can diminish another

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        Take two php and call me in the morning

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      Here’s the original

      https://www.science.org/content/article/one-10-americans-thinks-html-sexually-transmitted-disease

      According to the Los Angeles Times, the study questioned more than 2300 adults and was conducted by vouchercloud.net, a coupon website that wanted to know how much tech jargon the public knows.

      So probably not that serious

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        I don’t know, given the type of people who frequent “coupon websites,” I wouldn’t be that surprised if they were answering seriously.

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          Probably a lot of people clicking whatever just to get their coupons.

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      Probably not a joke but simply people answering multiple choice survey wrong because they don’t know. Most likely answer is that most of those people simply have no clue about html instead

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      Either it is a multiple-choice that the surveyor fucked up and put STD as an option. Or it is an open question and the “one in 10” is legit.

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        It was a 3 option multiple choice according to the original article

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          “What is HTML?”

          • A markup language
          • STD
          • I don’t know
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      It was done by a coupons website. 12% of the people thought USB was an European country. 18% that blu-ray is an animal. 15% that software is clothing…

      There is no way that people were serious.

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        Soft-wear…

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