http://time.com/12410/11-of-americans-think-html-is-an-std/
And:
23% thought an "MP3" was a "Star Wars" robot
18% identified "Blu-ray" as a marine animal
15% said they believed "software" is comfortable clothing
12% said "USB" is the acronym for a European country
>STD
No that was Macromedia Flash. hhh And probably modern JavaScript stuff.
JavaScript seems to be the tech herpes atm -- spreading like mad now that it infects servers as well as clients.
Even worse, 11% of webmasters think an STD is a web standard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Standard#Internet_Standard
And the Obama administration thought WTF stood for Win the Future
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_the_Future_(group)
>11% of webmasters think an STD is a web standard
A majority of webmasters have little need to think about the other type of STD. :P
Most are too busy winning the future to get bogged down in STDs other, of course, than HTML. The STD they fear the most.
7% of American adults (17.3 million) think chocolate milk comes from brown cows
Chocolate milk definitely doesn't come from brown cows -- but some adults think otherwise - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/us/chocolate-milk-help-trnd/index.html
That is an amusing stat, but I have to wonder if it is real or just people having fun with a survey?
Quote from: littleman on April 18, 2019, 11:20:02 PM
That is an amusing stat, but I have to wonder if it is real or just people having fun with a survey?
I would always wonder that about some of the absurd questions reportedly asked at the Yosemite visitor center.
My experience is that if you take the completely ridiculous ones, 10-20% are clueless questioners and 80-90% are info desk people who are missing the joke. But there's still the 10-20%
I often here of crazy questions and think "Sounds like something I would ask." On Saturday the wildlife team had a booth set up for Earth Day with a plastic bear skull. I was sorely tempted to go up and ask her if it was real plastic.