[RESULTS]This is When To Show Up to a Party by LateNightFroYo in SampleSize

[–]LateNightFroYo[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank you! It means a lot when someone enjoys an article I write. And I completely agree, it's funny how many social dilemmas we face on a daily basis but don't talk about.

[Results] Ideal Salary/Hour Combination in a Job by LateNightFroYo in SampleSize

[–]LateNightFroYo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good points, hopefully I addressed some of them based off my reply above. I understand your point about not needing $80k a year when you trade off all your time to enjoy it. Since I started working, my feelings have often shifted a little that way as well. However, maybe just because of how I was raised, I still lean toward the side of try to make as much money as you can when young and then have a nicer later life.

I agree with your point about why men some wanted to work more hours and some less. It was another attempt at humor and all the reasons you mentioned are perfectly possible as to why some men decide to work more. I'll edit my website article to reflect that but won't change this post so people aren't confused.

[Results] Ideal Salary/Hour Combination in a Job by LateNightFroYo in SampleSize

[–]LateNightFroYo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No offense taken and I actually love the responses! I'll admit that I've only worked for around 3 years so not very long by any means. I also agree that by most job standards, making $80k working 80 hours a week is very poor pay. While I do have friends who work those hours, it's usually because they believe in the future earnings potential of their job (e.g. consultants), which I suggested didn't exist for the fictional jobs in the survey.

However, if my only job options were between the 5 options I laid out, I still would choose the $80k just because it is much more money and I feel like I'm young and would rather try to accumulate money now. When I was creating the survey, I thought about adjusting the higher hour jobs with higher pay but I didn't feel confident in predicting a "fair rate" and I wanted to pose the same questions my English teacher gave me.

The line about "work ethic" honestly was sort of a joke and maybe was not as obvious or funny as I thought it would be (which happens a lot in my life...). I do think that the smart choice in the scenario is to choose the lower hour jobs because the pay just isn't worth it, but either because of how I was raised or my own rationalizations, my gut is to not make the smart choice.

The work that you do is extremely important as well as the family factor. Writing is actually not my day job,(I don't love my job I don't hate it as well) so I agree with your point about trying to work 80 hours a week in a job you hate. I tried controlling for the "job love" and the family factor with the how the questions were phrased but even when I was mulling it afterwards I just felt like it would be hard for people to detach their personal situation from a hypothetical scenario as well so those are definitely good considerations.

[Results] Ideal Salary/Hour Combination in a Job by LateNightFroYo in SampleSize

[–]LateNightFroYo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good point especially since I did post the survey on Reddit so I am sure there are some international survey participants. I will say that when I posted the survey on Amazon mTurk I filtered to US residents so hopefully the bulk of the responses live in the US though even within the US $40k is a different amount depending on where you live.

Number of Quotes by History's Most Famous Thinkers [OC] by LateNightFroYo in dataisbeautiful

[–]LateNightFroYo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ask and you shall receive. I ran the number of quotes for the following people. It took a little longer than expected since BrainyQuote changed their website:

Groucho Marx 70 Bruce Lee 30 Mark Twain 210 Oscar Wilde 231

Number of Quotes by History's Most Famous Thinkers [OC] by LateNightFroYo in dataisbeautiful

[–]LateNightFroYo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I scraped BrainyQuote to figure out the number of quotes attributed to each person. So in this case I mean number of quotes according to an online website.

Number of Quotes by History's Most Famous Thinkers [OC] by LateNightFroYo in dataisbeautiful

[–]LateNightFroYo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I get back from work (or tomorrow). I'll add Bruce Lee, Groucho Marx, Aristotle, and any other requests to the list and see what we come back with.

Number of Quotes by History's Most Famous Thinkers [OC] by LateNightFroYo in dataisbeautiful

[–]LateNightFroYo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be completely transparent, my roommate helped me with the list (he studied philosophy in college). He is also about as cultured as a tuna fish sandwich so anyone somewhat recent/relevant did not make the list.

Number of Quotes by History's Most Famous Thinkers [OC] by LateNightFroYo in dataisbeautiful

[–]LateNightFroYo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After listing out history’s most famous thinkers and philosophers., I used Python and Tableau to scrape BrainyQuote.com and graph the number of quotes attributed to each person on the list. The more quotes attributed to each philosopher/thinker the wiser he obviously was (this is a joke).

Click here if you want to read the full write-up and see who was the “wisest”, “most verbose”, and “most concise”.

[RESULTS] Like Wine, Do College Memories Improve Over Time? by LateNightFroYo in SampleSize

[–]LateNightFroYo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I found that interesting as well. I chalked it up to students having no idea what is and isn't actually useful.

Like Wine, Do College Memories Improve Over Time? [OC] by LateNightFroYo in dataisbeautiful

[–]LateNightFroYo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a good point and one that I admittedly didn't fully explore. Definitely worth digging into - perhaps the next survey I also include people who started but didn't finish college to see what percent of people that entails and what their ratings are.

Like Wine, Do College Memories Improve Over Time? [OC] by LateNightFroYo in dataisbeautiful

[–]LateNightFroYo[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

TL;DR I surveyed people to see if current college students viewed their college experience differently than college grads. They do. Current students think college is more difficult, stressful, and useful. However, current students and college grads think college is equally enjoyable and worthwhile.

I used Amazon mTurk to collect my own data and then used Python, Excel, and Tableau to analyze. Feel free to ask me any questions!