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[-] gon@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

And JS is the cure. Obviously.

[-] gon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

It's amazing how one pain can diminish another

[-] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Take two php and call me in the morning

[-] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 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

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"What is HTML?"

  • A markup language
  • STD
  • I don't know
[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] gon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
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