this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
514 points (97.1% liked)

Memes

45555 readers
645 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I mean, how serious are these surveys? I can see myself answering HTML is an STD as a joke.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And JS is the cure. Obviously.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's amazing how one pain can diminish another

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Take two php and call me in the morning

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"What is HTML?"

  • A markup language
  • STD
  • I don't know
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago