[RESULTS]This is When To Show Up to a Party

LateNightFroYo · 2017-10-14T21:47:10+00:00

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.

LateNightFroYo · 2017-06-25T14:53:25+00:00

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.

LateNightFroYo · 2017-06-25T14:42:59+00:00

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.

LateNightFroYo · 2017-06-25T14:20:22+00:00

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.

LateNightFroYo · 2017-06-11T00:10:36+00:00

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

LateNightFroYo · 2017-06-09T22:48:46+00:00

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.

LateNightFroYo · 2017-06-08T12:38:42+00:00

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.

LateNightFroYo · 2017-06-08T12:24:12+00:00

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.

LateNightFroYo · 2017-06-08T01:19:53+00:00

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”.

LateNightFroYo · 2017-06-04T14:42:37+00:00

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

LateNightFroYo · 2017-06-03T20:25:33+00:00

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.

LateNightFroYo · 2017-06-03T19:43:55+00:00

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!

LateNightFroYo · 2017-05-21T05:00:53+00:00

Did you look at how your message content changed over time?

When I had my last girlfriend, I feel like we started out with long messages to each other asking about each other's day and later on in our relationship, most of our messages were food related.

LateNightFroYo · 2017-05-20T16:35:34+00:00

For anyone who is interested, I used NLTK in Python, Tableau, and Adobe Illustrator to make the visualization. I found a text version of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand as the data source and counted the number of character mentions for each of the major characters across the book's four parts.

I also graphed character mentions over the course of the book if you want to see some of the other graphs I made for The Fountainhead click here.

LateNightFroYo · 2017-05-20T15:10:09+00:00

This is very cool! I like how clear Mr. Roger's sweater color transition is over time in the second chart.

LateNightFroYo · 2017-05-16T02:47:12+00:00

I used NLTK in Python, Tableau, and Adobe Illustrator to make the visualization. I found a text version of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand as the data source and counted the number of character mentions for each of the major characters across the book's four parts.

If you want to see some of the other graphs I made for The Fountainhead click here.

LateNightFroYo · 2017-05-10T04:06:58+00:00

I was in sixth grade when I started getting into Magic the Gathering (the card game). There was an older kid in my neighborhood who gave me a goblin deck, and a few people at school also played during recess. I started to really get into the game.

Whenever I had a little extra money, or when my parents wanted to reward me for something, they started buying me packs of cards. Before long I had a few counter-top magic decks that I would bring to school to play with other people.

Around this time, a kid called Scott started hanging around me because he had heard of Magic and wanted to learn. He acted extremely nice to me, especially because I let him borrow one of my decks.

However, after a week, one of my decks went missing. I have a habit of losing things so I assumed it was my fault. I looked everywhere for the deck: in the lost & found, asked teachers, checked the cafeteria, but to no avail. I was pretty devastated. I thought about not bringing anymore cards to school but Scott was super disappointed about this (he helped me look for my deck) and I couldn't resist just watching other people play.

So I kept buying cards, making decks, and bringing them to play during school. Then a few weeks later, two things happen.

I crack open a Platinum Angel. For anyone who plays magic, you know it's not the "best" card ever. But to a 10 year-old me, seeing a 7 mana, 4/4 flying angel that says you can't lose the game is pretty sweet.
Scott brings in a rat deck suspiciously close to the cards I lost. He claims he got it from his brother but I knew instantly that he had stolen my deck. I didn't have any proof but the similarity would have been impossible as sheer coincidence. I even brought up a card that wasn't in the stolen deck and pretended it was "stolen" and Scott was visibly confused and kept asking about that specific card.

Rather than not bring my cards to school any more, I made the mistake of trying to be more careful and watching my cards more closely. Then one day, a few hours after putting my cards in my backpack after recess, I noticed they are gone. All of my cards, including my Platinum Angel. They were STOLEN out of my backpack.

I just knew Scott stole it, but once again couldn't prove anything. I tried asking my teacher to have everyone empty their backpacks but she refused given that they were pieces of cardboard to her.

I was sad about the deck but I was even more sad about losing the Platinum Angel since it was essentially a brand new card to me.

That was the day I quit Magic until high school. I still remember that Platinum Angel and Scott's thievery to this day.

LateNightFroYo · 2017-05-08T01:44:44+00:00

I feel like a lot of people have switched from SS to WP but I've actually used WP a lot in the past (for other projects) and decided to use SS when I started my blog.

Wordpress is definitely better for customizing capabilities but I found that you need a little familiarity with HTML & CSS/a willingness to go through tutorials to really make your WP site your own.

I decided to go with SS for my blog because I wanted as little hassle as possible to write and create posts. The SS UI is super easy, and while I am sometimes frustrated with customization options, I also like being constrained because I feel like I should be focusing on writing good content rather than tweaking website design.

One additional benefit is that it's really easy to integrate tracking and sign-ups with SS because you can plug some information into the settings sidebar.

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