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1572: xkcd Survey

2015-09-02T18:26:54Z

Ross: /* Beverages */ fixed a typo

{{comic
| number = 1572
| date = September 2, 2015
| title = xkcd Survey
| image = xkcd_survey.png
| titletext = The xkcd Survey: Big Data for a Big Planet
}}
*The comic links to http://goo.gl/forms/B5RaBeZ6nw.

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|First attempt. There is probably more to come.}}

As the comic image states, it links to a survey created with [https://www.google.com/forms/about/ Google Forms], containing a series of questions. The questions range from mundane typical survery questions such as "Do you have any food allergies?", to rather strange, such as "Fill this text box with random letters by randomly mashing keys on your keyboard."

The stated goal of the survey is to "create an interesting and unusual data set for people to play with". A strange data set is a ripe opportunity for a sampling of readers. As the image claims this is "a search for weird correlations," presumably the goal is to be able to say things like "people who have been skydiving are (more/less) likely than average to dislike cilantro."

This explanation will doubtless expand when the data comes in.
===Survey===
Explanations after the dash.

Subsections were added for ease of editing
====Plane====
Have you ever been in a plane?
*No
*Yes

====Skydiving====
Have you ever been {{w|Parachuting|skydiving}}?
*No, but I might someday
*Yes
*No

====The Dress====
*When you first saw {{w|The dress (viral phenomenon)|The Dress}}, what color was it? — Also see [[1492: Dress Color]].
**White and gold
**A color combination not listed here
**I don't remember
**Blue and black
**What dress?
====Popular food====
*What's a really popular food that you don't like?
====Floaters====
When you look at a blue sky, do you see those swirly {{w|floater|floaters}} in your vision?
*Yes, constantly
*I'm not sure what things you mean
*Yes, occasionally
*No

====Running out of gas====
Have you ever had a car run out of gas while you were driving it?
*Yes
*No

====Animals====
*Name the first five animals you can think of
====Weather====
*What's the weather like where you are right now?

====Activities====
Which of these can you do reasonably well?

(Check all that apply)
*{{w|slam dunk|Dunk}} a basketball — A "slam dunk" or simply "dunk" is the act of jumping up and putting the ball through the net with a lot of force
*Tie a {{w|sheet bend}} or {{w|bowline}} — A sheet bend is a knot that joins two ropes together; A bowline is a knot used to form a fixed loop at the end of a rope
*Roller skate
*Drive a stick shift — See {{w|Manual transmission}} of a car
*Solve a {{w|Rubik's cube}}
*Dive headfirst off a diving board — See {{w|Springboard}} and {{w|Diving platform}}
*Ice skate
*{{w|Skateboarding|Skateboard}}
*Walk on {{w|stilts}} — Stilts are poles, posts or pillars used to allow a person to walk at a height above the ground
*Ski
*Cut vegetables with a knife
*Swim
*Ride a horse
*{{w|Unicycle}}
*Change the oil on a car
*Do a back {{w|Handspring (gymnastics)|handspring}} — A handspring is an excercise in gymnastics in which you jump through the air landing on your hands, then again landing on your feet
*Juggle — {{w|Toss juggling}} (the most recognizable form of juggling) consists in throwing objects into the air and catching them.

====Spelling====
What word can you never seem to spell on the first try?
====Condiments====
Do you eat condiments directly out of the fridge as a snack?
*No
*Yes

====Thermostat====
When you adjust a thermostat that was set by someone else, it's usually because you want the room to be ...
*Cooler
*Warmer

====Clothing====
What color is the shirt/dress/upper-body-clothing you're wearing right now, if any?

====Colds====
*Do you get {{w|Common cold|colds}} often?
**No
**Yes
====Number====
*Pick a number from 1 to 100

====Spelling====
*On a scale of 1 to 10, how good at spelling are you? (Note that the question does not specify which end of the scale is good or bad.)

====Myers-Briggs====
Do you know your {{w|Myers–Briggs_Type_Indicator|Myers-Briggs type}}?
*No
*Yes

====Astrology====
*Do you know your {{w|astrological sign}}?
**No
**Yes

====Siblings====
*How many older siblings do you have?
*How many younger siblings do you have?
*How many twin/etc siblings do you have?

====Sleepiness====
*Do you feel sleepy a lot?
**Yes
**No

====Movie star====
*Name a movie star
** ''Text box''
====Time in sun====
*Do you spend a lot of time in the sun?
**Yes
**No

====Broccoli====
*Does {{w|broccoli}} taste bitter to you?
**Yes
**I've never had it
**No

====Wakefulness====
*Do you regularly stay awake much later than you meant to?
**Yes
**No

====Keyboard mashing====
*Fill this text box with gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys
**''Multi-line text box''

====Driving====
*On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is terrible and 3 is average, how good a driver do you think you are?
====Allergies====
*Do you have any food allergies?
**No
**Yes

====Thunder====
*Have you heard thunder or seen lightning in the past year?
**Yes
**No

====Flavor preference====
Which do you prefer?
*Chocolate
*Vanilla

====Number (reprise)====
*Pick another number from 1 to 100

====Internet====
*When you think about stuff on the internet, where do you picture it being physically located? Even if you know it's not really how things work, is there a place you imagine websites and social media posts sitting before you look at them? If so, where is it?

====Roll tongue====
Can you {{w|Tongue rolling|roll your tongue}}?
*Yes
*No
*What?
====Toes====
Can you pick things up with your toes?
*No
*Yes
====Age====
How old are you?

''Single line text box''
====Walls====
What color are the walls around you right now?

''Single line text box''

====Cell phone====
What kind of cell phone do you have?
*{{w|iPhone}}
*{{w|Android (operating system)|Android}}
*Other smartphone
*Non-smartphone
*I don't have a cell phone
====Eating====
What's the last thing you ate?
*''Single line text box''

====Difficult words====
Which of these words do you know the meaning of?

[http://dictionary.reference.com/ Dictionary.com] has an index of difficulty (measured in pixels, with class name difficulty-indicator). We add it at the right of the words that have it. N/A means that a word isn't present in Dictionary.com, or that it doesn't have an index.
*Slickle
*[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rife Rife] — [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rife 117]
*[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soliloquy Soliloquy] — [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/soliloquy 150]
*Fination
*[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stipple Stipple]
*[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peristeronic Peristeronic]
*[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/modicum Modicum] — [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/modicum 120]
*Trephony
*Tribution
*[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/phoropter Phoropter] — [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/phoropter N/A]
*Unitory
*[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amiable Amiable]
*[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/salient Salient]
*[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/regolith Regolith]
*[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lithe Lithe]
*Revergent
*[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hubris Hubris]
*[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fleek Fleek]
*Cadine
*[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apricity Apricity]

====cat====
Please type "cat" here:

''Single line text box''

====Dreams====
Do you usually remember your dreams?
*No
*Yes

====Text editors====
Do you have strong opinions about text editors? — See {{w|Editor war}}
*Yes
*No

====Emoji====
How do you feel about {{w|emoji}}?
*Negative 😠 — Unicode 1f620 Angry face
*Positive ☺ — Unicode 263a White smiling face
*Neutral 😐

====Snow====
*Does it ever snow where you live?
**No
**Yes

====Taste of food====
Do you strongly dislike the taste or texture of any of these things?
*Eggs
*Chocolate ice cream
*Beer
*White wine
*Carbonation — Fizz
*Red wine
*Cilantro
*Coffee
*Tomatoes
*Yogurt
====Beverages====
Which of these do you regularly drink?
*Caffeinated soda — e.g. Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper
*Noncaffeinated soda
*Coffee
*Fruit juice
*Milk
*Beer
*Wine
*Tea
*{{w|Maple syrup}} — This is a joke because maple syrup is not normally drunk
*Water

====Random words====
Type five random words

''Multi-line text box''
====Flying====
Are you nervous about flying?
*Yes
*A little
*No

====Favorite number====
On a scale of 1 to 5, which number is your favorite?
*''Buttons to select from the integers 1 through 5''

====Sandwich====
*Which of these would you consider a {{w|sandwich}}?
**{{w|Submarine sandwich|Sub/Hoagie}}
**{{w|Open-faced sandwich}}
**{{w|Cheesesteak}}
**{{w|Calzone}}
**{{w|Quesadilla}}
**{{w|Taco}}
**{{w|Hamburger}}
''Multiple selections allowed''

====Animal affinity====
*Which of these describes you?
**Dog person
**Cat person
**Half-cat half-person
**Part of a subterranean race of dog people
**Literally named "Catherine Person"
''Multiple selections allowed''

====Sense of direction====
*Would you say you have a good sense of direction?
**Yes
**No

====Socks or underwear====
Have you ever thrown out all your different pairs of socks/underwear, bought a bunch of replacements that were all one kind, and then told all your friends how great it was and how they should do it too?
*Yes
*No
*I did the throwing out thing, but didn't talk to everyone about it
*No, but I'm totally doing that now

==See also==
*[[882: Significant]] is also about finding presumably-spurious correlations between unrelated data.
*The blag of the webcomic, [http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ Color Survey Results], 2010-05-03

==Transcript==
:Introducing
:'''THE XKCD SURVEY'''
:A search for weird correlations
:Note: This survey is anonymous, but
:<font color="red"> all responses will be posted publicly </font>
:so people can play with the data.
:'''Click here to'''
:'''take the survey'''
:Or click here, or here.
:The whole comic is a link,
:because I still haven't gotten
:the hang of HTML imagemaps.

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Comics with color]]

1509: Scenery Cheat Sheet

2015-04-08T15:23:35Z

Ross: /* Map */

{{comic
| number = 1509
| date = April 8, 2015
| title = Scenery Cheat Sheet
| image = scenery cheat sheet.png
| titletext = At the boundary between each zone, stories blend together. Somewhere in the New Mexico desert, the Roadrunner is pursued by a tireless Anton Chigurh.
}}

==Explanation==
{{Incomplete|Only just started page.}}

{{w|GeoGuessr}} is a game using {{w|Google Street View|StreetView}} images that drops the player in a random location and challenges them to work out where they are. It is also referenced in [[1214: Geoguessr]].

The [[title text]] references ''{{w|Anton Chigurh}}'' (portrayed by Javier Bardem), who is the main antagonist of the film ''{{w|No Country For Old Men}}''.

Note that this is a map of where the stories are set, not where they were filmed.

==Transcript==
===Title===
:A '''cheat sheet''' for
:figuring out where in the US you are
:by recognizing the background from movies
:(for use by GeoGuessr players and crash-landed astronauts)

===Map===
[From top left, left to right, top to bottom]
{| class="wikitable"
! Movie Title
! Setting for Movie
! Actual Filming Location(s)
! Notes
|-
| {{w|Twilight (film)| Twilight}}
| rowspan="2"|
|
|
|-
| {{w|Fifty Shades of Grey (film)|50 Shades of Grey}}
|
|
|-
| {{w|Dances with Wolves}}
| rowspan="2"|
|
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|-
| {{w|Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers}}
|
|
|-
| {{w|Fargo (film)|Fargo}}
|
|
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|-
| {{w|Wild Wild West|Wild Wild West}}
| The southwest area
| Tuscon, Arizona; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Pierce, Idaho
|
|-
| {{w|The Sandlot|The Sandlot}}
| Suburban Los Angeles
| Salt Lake City, Utah
|
|-
| {{w|Napoleon Dynamite|Napoleon Dynamite}}
| Preston, Idaho
| Preston, Idaho
|
|-
| {{w|Brokeback Mountain|Brokeback Mountain}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|Oregon Trail (video_game)|Oregon Trail}}
|
|Video Game, not a film
| Might be referring to film "{{w|The Oregon Trail (1936 film)}}".
|-
| {{w|Interstellar (film)|Interstellar}} (Earth parts)
| rowspan="3"|
|
| "Earth Parts"
|-
| {{w|Star Trek (film)|Star Trek (2009)}} (Earth parts)
| Iowa
| "Earth Parts"
|-
| {{w|Field of Dreams|Field of Dreams}}
| Dyersville, IA
|
|-
| {{w|The Music Man (1962 film)|The Music Man}}
| River City, IA
|
|
|-
| {{w|The Blues Brothers (film)|Blues Brothers}}
| Chicago
| Chicago
|
|-
| {{w|A Christmas Story|A Christmas Story}}
| rowspan="2" |
|
|
|-
| {{w|Jack & Diane|That song about Jack and Diane}}
|
|
|-
| {{w|8 Mile (film)|8 Mile}}
| Wayne County, Michigan
|
|
|-
| {{w|Groundhog Day (film)|Groundhog Day}}
| {{w|Punxsutawney,_Pennsylvania|Punxsutawney, PA}}, {{w|Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh}}
| Woodstock, IL
|
|-
| {{w|My Side of the Mountain|My Side of the Mountain (book)}}
| Adriondack Mountains, NY
| Catskill mountains, near Delhi, NY
| The area shown on the map is actually the Adirondack mountains, not the Catskills. I suspect this is an error.
|-
| {{w|Super Troopers|Super Troopers}}
| Vermont, NY ("Somewhere near the border")
|
|
|-
| {{w|Pet Semetary|Pet Semetary}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|What About Bob?|What about Bob}}
|Lake Winnipesaukee, NH
|Smith Mountain Lake, VA
|
|-
| {{w|The Departed|The Departed}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|Signs (film)|Signs}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|The Village (2004 film)|The Village}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|War of the Worlds (2005 film)|War of the Worlds (2005)}}
|
|
| Also referenced in [[556: Alternative Energy Revolution]]
|-
| {{w|Jaws (film)|Jaws}}
| Amity Island (stand-in for Martha's Vineyard)
|
|
|-
| {{w|The Rock (film)|The Rock}}
| {{w|Alcatraz Island}}
| {{W|Alcatraz Island}}
|
|-
| {{w|Zodiac (film)|Zodiac}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|Sideways|That movie about wine & talking}}
|
|
| He clearly means ''Sideways''
|-
| {{w|Top Gun|Top Gun}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|Independence Day (1996 film)|Part of Independence Day}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner|Roadrunner cartoons}}
|
|Animated, not filmed
|
|-
| {{w|The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz}}
| Kansas, Oz
|
| The Judy Garland version, presumably. The earth parts.
|-
| {{w|Twister (1996 film)|Twister}}
|
|
|
|-
| Anything by {{w|Mark Twain}}
| Hannibal, MO
|
| The mapped area doesn't quite include Twain's home town of Hannibal, MO.
|-
| {{w|Walk the Line|Walk the Line}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|October Sky|October Sky}}
| Coalwood, WV
| East Tennessee
|
|-
| {{w|Dirty Dancing|Dirty Dancing}}
| {{w|Catskill Mountains|Catskill Mountains}}
|
|
|-
| [Generic City]
| Washington DC, Baltimore, New York City, Philadelphia
| N/A
|
|-
| {{w|Deep Impact (film)|Deep Impact}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|The Hunt for Red October (film)|The Hunt for Red October}}
| Atlantic Ocean
|
|
|-
| {{w|Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|Forrest Gump|Forrest Gump}}
| Alabama
|
|
|-
| {{w|List of most expensive films|Every movie with a big budget...}}
|
|Hollywood, CA
|
|-
| {{w|The Truman Show|The Truman Show}}<br>but with desert in the background
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|No Country for Old Men (film)|No Country for Old Men}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|True Grit (1969 film)|True Grit}}
|
|
| Or the {{w|True Grit (2010 film)|2010 version}}
|-
| {{w|Office Space|Office Space}}
| rowspan="3" |
|
|
|-
| {{w|Dazed and Confused (film)|Dazed and Confused}}
|
|
|-
| {{w|Kill Bill|Kill Bill}}
|
|
|-
| {{w|Duck Dynasty|Duck Dynasty}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|The Princess and the Frog|Princess and the Frog}}
| rowspan="2" |
|Animated, not filmed
|
|-
| {{w|All Dogs Go to Heaven|All Dogs go to Heaven}}
|Animated, not filmed
|
|-
| {{w|Big Fish|Big Fish}}
| rowspan="2" |
|
|
|-
| {{w|O Brother, Where Art Thou?|O Brother Where Art Thou}}
|
|
|-
| {{w|Beasts of the Southern Wild|Beasts of the Southern Wild}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|The Truman Show|The Truman Show}}
| Northern Florida
| {{w|Seaside, Florida|Seaside, Florida}}
|
|-
| {{w|Adaptation (film)|Adaptation}}
|
|
|
|-
| {{w|Miami Vice|Miami Vice}}
| Miami
|
| Or the {{w|Miami Vice (film)|film}}
|}

==See also==
*[https://geoguessr.com/ GeoGuessr's official website]
{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Maps]]