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The xkcd survey

I assumed it would mean "clean and neat" or polished, as in "looks spiffy to me."

So "spiffy" is a word, but I'll have to work on how to spiff up the conversation.

Maybe it is like "ept", the root word of "inept" that nobody uses.
 
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casebro said:
I assumed it would mean "clean and neat" or polished, as in "looks spiffy to me."

So "spiffy" is a word, but I'll have to work on how to spiff up the conversation.

Maybe it is like "ept", the root word of "inept" that nobody uses.
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I am quite ept at doing such!!!
 
theprestige said:
Many surveys, and I think this one in particular, aren't about "correct answers". Rather, they're about your subjective impressions.

The survey doesn't know or care what are the "correct" popular foods. The survey cares about what people think of, when they are prompted with "popular food that you don't like". The only thing you need to know to answer the question correctly is what is the first food that comes to mind when you think "popular food".

Hot dogs
But I like hot dogs.​

Guacamole
But I like guacamole.​

Chicken drumsticks
I hate chicken drumsticks. Pow! Question answered. Moving on.​

Are chicken drumsticks really a popular food? It doesn't matter. All that matters is that you thought of it, when asked about popular food.
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Kids loved the legs when I was a kid for sure.
 
Myriad said:
So "spiff" means "shrink a comic page to a size where it becomes impossible to read the text"?
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To "unspiff" means to appoint moderators who are even less tech-savvy than me, i.e. don't know how to change a display size, which is really saying something.
In Firefox <ctrl>+<scrollwheel> does it in a jiffy. It's spiffy. Those new-fangled phonish/tabletish things work by smearing fingers on the screen in a certain way, or so I hear.
 
Literally named "Catherine Person"
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I see they are testing if there are any DC comic book characters out there.
 
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theprestige said:
Many surveys, and I think this one in particular, aren't about "correct answers". Rather, they're about your subjective impressions.
The survey doesn't know or care what are the "correct" popular foods. The survey cares about what people think of, when they are prompted with "popular food that you don't like". The only thing you need to know to answer the question correctly is what is the first food that comes to mind when you think "popular food".

Hot dogs
But I like hot dogs.​

Guacamole
But I like guacamole.​

Chicken drumsticks
I hate chicken drumsticks. Pow! Question answered. Moving on.​

Are chicken drumsticks really a popular food? It doesn't matter. All that matters is that you thought of it, when asked about popular food.
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Without a doubt he will draw up irrelevant comparisons just because, but he's also getting at certain things.

For example, various genetic questions known to have variance in the population -- Can you curl your tongue, do you really hate cilantro, does broccoli taste bitter? I'm surprised he didn't ask if you can smell asparagus in pee (which I've heard two explanations for -- some people can smell it and others not, but everyone outputs it, and some people output it and others not, but everyone can smell it.)
 
GlennB said:
To "unspiff" means to appoint moderators who are even less tech-savvy than me, i.e. don't know how to change a display size, which is really saying something.
In Firefox <ctrl>+<scrollwheel> does it in a jiffy. It's spiffy. Those new-fangled phonish/tabletish things work by smearing fingers on the screen in a certain way, or so I hear.
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:D

It's a 200 x 140 pixel GIF. I can expand it to the size of a billboard if I want, but that doesn't make the text any more readable.
 
Myriad said:
:D

It's a 200 x 140 pixel GIF. I can expand it to the size of a billboard if I want, but that doesn't make the text any more readable.
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I get a 600x419 GIF that is quite readable (Android, Lightning browser). Perhaps it's something with your browser, or the server giving you that small image for some reason?
 
grmcdorman said:
I get a 600x419 GIF that is quite readable (Android, Lightning browser). Perhaps it's something with your browser, or the server giving you that small image for some reason?
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I get the tiny unreadable image on my iPad.
 
Dave Rogers said:
Yes. It took a while, but that was what the survey asked for.

Dave
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85% of capable rollerskaters who don't class burgers as 'sandwiches' follow meaningless online instructions to the letter.
 
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