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HTML is a disease and MP3 a Star Wars robot (media.kbin.social)
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[–] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 20 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

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 20 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.

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

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