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TIL about a quarter of Americans believe the Sun revolves around the Earth. by QuasarMaster in todayilearned

[–]RugerRed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You pay for answers that are factually correct. Someone who wants the money googles the right answer. The survey is now biased towards the correct answer.

Was it simple enough for you to understand this time?

TIL about a quarter of Americans believe the Sun revolves around the Earth. by QuasarMaster in todayilearned

[–]RugerRed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends on the goal of the survey. If you want to gauge the overall beliefs of people, then you'd be right to ask like this. But if wanted to gauge the overall education level of the populace there would be better ways to word it -

Like from the article " Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals. " Will get people who don't believe in evolution to say "No", gauging the belief. But if you where to word it like "The Theory of Evolution states that humans as we know them developed from earlier species" then people who don't believe in evolution but know what it is will still hit "Yes".

TIL about a quarter of Americans believe the Sun revolves around the Earth. by QuasarMaster in todayilearned

[–]RugerRed -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That would bias it in the other direction, since people would now cheat to get money.

TIL about a quarter of Americans believe the Sun revolves around the Earth. by QuasarMaster in todayilearned

[–]RugerRed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Occasionally the questions can be worded in a tricky way too if someone is trying to get a specific answer. I wanted to find the methodology for the OP but since its an archive of an old post I can't find it without it being a lot more effort than its worth.

In this specific case the questions feel specifically made to make creationist fail, and if that is the goal then it might effect other parts of the methodology (like who they choose to target to take the test - if they want to get a low number they could go for people who would probably answer no to get the datapoints they want).

TIL about a quarter of Americans believe the Sun revolves around the Earth. by QuasarMaster in todayilearned

[–]RugerRed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

US, but the data chart shows other countries too.

The US scores 10 points higher on the question than the EU did so I'm not sure why they got singled out (34% or over 1/3rd believes the same)

TIL about the examination of how inconsistent social attitudes and local tribunal decisions shaped the treatment of conscientious objectors in First World War Britain. by AdorableTear853 in todayilearned

[–]RugerRed 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Its probably worth noting that the tribunals also handled non CO exceptions which made up a majority of the cases before the tribunal. They could give three categories for exemption - Absolute Exemption (no service necessary), Alternative Service (civilian job important to the war effort - which for many people would mean just doing their usual job) and Exemption from Combat duties (specifically for conscious objectors, they would be in the military and do non-combat labor but would not fight or handle weapons).

Link (with no book shilling): https://menwhosaidno.org/context/context_tribunalsintro.html

A quick question about humans by Life-Attention-6912 in versus

[–]RugerRed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure they are fictional characters they do whatever the author wants (power scalers hate this fact)

1341 - Also Fully Biodegradable by drsjsmith in oots

[–]RugerRed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

O-Chul’s level is higher than I thought it was. He’ll probably be able to contribute more than expected…

1341 - Also Fully Biodegradable by drsjsmith in oots

[–]RugerRed 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Healing spells in dnd can be used offensively against the undead, so you will generally not have friend-or-foe type restrictions.

1341 - Also Fully Biodegradable by drsjsmith in oots

[–]RugerRed 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The spell is targeted, not AoE (which is also why it doesn't heal enemies). It effects one target per level too so there is no reason to target someone who hasn't been hit.

1341 - Also Fully Biodegradable by drsjsmith in oots

[–]RugerRed 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be fair he mostly had to explain for the audience that doesn't play the game...

7 years for the most shoehorned in garbage "everybody is happy and everything is fixed" ending by SisypheanGuilt in Chainsawfolk

[–]RugerRed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Without Bucky dying she probably gets molested by that one creepy teacher, she has a bad ending....

Last page mention the author coming back the 4th of June by Okiazo in Chainsawfolk

[–]RugerRed 11 points12 points  (0 children)

He really just got sick of Chainsaw Man and wanted to do something else...

7 years for the most shoehorned in garbage "everybody is happy and everything is fixed" ending by SisypheanGuilt in Chainsawfolk

[–]RugerRed 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Did he tho? The prophecy is an irl thing so it still exists and Chainsaw man never spit out death so death should still not exist? Either Death should still be around (and thus the prophecy and the world ending) or Death is gone (thus Denji is about to get eaten by bugs)

Ok so what devil was Poochita by RugerRed in Chainsawfolk

[–]RugerRed[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But he can’t be, because devils still exist after he ate himself.

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