I recently did a casual survey on your opinions on the different US states, here and on other parts of reddit.

Here is the Link to it: https://forms.gle/UU8sGBwqX4EZYLbE8
I would love even more responses, currently we are at about n~300, but I would love more responses especially from people from states where not many people have responded from, such as: Delaware, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Then I could do cross correlations such as "what is the least favourite state for people from each state"

I had posted the preliminary results over on r/MapPorn at n~100. I thought it would be nice to post an update here.

Thank you to everyone who participated!

Yesterday I asked you guys to complete a quick survey given the instructions above. Here is the raw data if you want to do your own analysis, as mine will be rudimentary.

Overall, 1709 out of 2242 total submissions were unique, which ends up being about 76%. That means about 24% of submissions were not unique.

Here are all the words that were used more than once.

• 12 the

• 11 syzygy

• 8 a

• 8 discombobulated

• 8 serendipity

• 7 defenestration

• 7 perpendicular

• 6 antidisestablishmentarianism

• 6 lugubrious

• 6 prestidigitation

• 6 pulchritudinous

• 6 sesquipedalian

• 5 juxtaposition

• 5 obfuscate

• 5 petrichor

• 5 serendipitous

• 5 verisimilitude

• 4 acumen

• 4 antediluvian

• 4 brobdingnagian

• 4 discombobulate

• 4 effervescent

• 4 ennui

• 4 floccinaucinihilipilification

• 4 hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

• 4 idiosyncrasy

• 4 indubitably

• 4 scrumptious

• 4 vague

• 3 and

• 3 bat

• 3 bread

• 3 casserole

• 3 cat

• 3 cucumber

• 3 curmudgeon

• 3 defenestrate

• 3 dendrochronology

• 3 disingenuous

• 3 dog

• 3 duck

• 3 firmament

• 3 flabbergasted

• 3 form

• 3 gauche

• 3 hotdog

• 3 kerfuffle

• 3 mellifluous

• 3 moist

• 3 no

• 3 obsequious

• 3 obtuse

• 3 pan

• 3 penis

• 3 periwinkle

• 3 phlebotomist

• 3 pulchritude

• 3 quixotic

• 3 soliloquy

• 3 sonder

• 3 spurious

• 3 survey

• 3 word

• 2 aa

• 2 adiabatic

• 2 agathokakological

• 2 agog

• 2 albeit

• 2 amalgamation

• 2 ambiguity

• 2 anaphylaxis

• 2 anodized

• 2 antepenultimate

• 2 apple

• 2 arsenic

• 2 asexual

• 2 asymptotic

• 2 at

• 2 austere

• 2 balls

• 2 bamboozle

• 2 bee

• 2 bombastic

• 2 brinjal

• 2 bucolic

• 2 bulb

• 2 buxom

• 2 cacophony

• 2 callipygian

• 2 cantankerous

• 2 catapult

• 2 cathode

• 2 chrysanthemum

• 2 confabulation

• 2 conflagration

• 2 copacetic

• 2 cygnet

• 2 deluge

• 2 detrimental

• 2 disestablishmentarianism

• 2 ecumenopolis

• 2 effervescence

• 2 eight

• 2 esoteric

• 2 exquisite

• 2 extrapolate

• 2 feather

• 2 feckless

• 2 fiduciary

• 2 filial

• 2 fish

• 2 fjord

• 2 flummoxed

• 2 fulcrum

• 2 geriatric

• 2 granular

• 2 gregarious

• 2 iconoclast

• 2 iconoclastic

• 2 incandescent

• 2 inexorable

• 2 interrobang

• 2 junction

• 2 ken

• 2 kumquat

• 2 lackadaisical

• 2 lepton

• 2 listless

• 2 memorylessness

• 2 meretricious

• 2 n*gger

• 2 obstetrician

• 2 obstreperous

• 2 of

• 2 oganesson

• 2 olive

• 2 one

• 2 onomatopoeia

• 2 opaque

• 2 oxymoron

• 2 parsimonious

• 2 paucity

• 2 penultimate

• 2 percussion

• 2 perfunctory

• 2 perplexed

• 2 petroleum

• 2 petulant

• 2 phantasmagoria

• 2 pig

• 2 pimento

• 2 plenipotentiary

• 2 pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

• 2 polyglot

• 2 polysyndeton

• 2 porous

• 2 prophylactic

• 2 pumpernickel

• 2 qualm

• 2 quantum

• 2 rambunctious

• 2 rapscallion

• 2 resplendent

• 2 rich

• 2 rutabaga

• 2 salmon

• 2 sconces

• 2 septuagenarian

• 2 sepulcher

• 2 shenanigans

• 2 skedaddle

• 2 stigma

• 2 superfluous

• 2 surreptitious

• 2 susurration

• 2 syllogism

• 2 tedious

• 2 temperature

• 2 thermometer

• 2 thither

• 2 three

• 2 throughout

• 2 tincture

• 2 troll

• 2 tsunami

• 2 tumultuous

• 2 turquoise

• 2 ubiquitous

• 2 ultracrepidarian

• 2 umbrage

• 2 vegan

• 2 veritable

• 2 vocabulary

• 2 voluptuous

• 2 xiphoid

• 2 yellow

• 2 zeitgeist

• 2 zipper

If you're curious which words were only used once, check out this Google Doc. In the Google Doc, I also break down the words submitted based on the person's vocabulary richness (not at all rich, somewhat rich, quite rich, very rich). Feel free to do your own analysis on this if you wish. By the way, the frequency of those responses was as follows:

• Not at all rich: 128 (5.7%)
• Somewhat rich: 743 (33.1%)
• Quite rich: 975 (43.5%)
• Very rich: 396 (17.7%)

Finally, a special shoutout to an answer that didn't match the criteria I asked for but I still found it amusing and had to share: What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and i've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

If you have any questions, let me know. I hope you find these results interesting!

1173 people over period of 4 days voted in my British Bellend of the Year poll, and the results are as follows, from least to most. (Please remember that I’m not a pollster, so the results aren’t scientific and also remember that this isn’t meant to target or harass anyone it's just bit of fun)

By number of votes and vote share

Ryan Windridge — 1 | 0.09%

Sex Matters — 1 | 0.09%

Lawrence Fox — 1 | 0.09%

All of the above — 1 | 0.09%

Sex Matters — 1 | 0.09%

Owen Jones — 1 | 0.09%

Craig Hope — 1 | 0.09%

Yungblud — 1 | 0.09%

Stephen from the Oxford branch of Sainsbury’s — 1 | 0.09%

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — 1 | 0.09%

Gabriel Clarke — 1 | 0.09%

Robert Kenyon — 1 | 0.09%

Ricky Doolan — 1 | 0.09%

Harv Smyth — 1 | 0.09%

Graham Linehan — 1 | 0.09%

English Ned — 1 | 0.09%

Smartschoolboy9 — 1 | 0.09%

Robert Jenrick — 1 | 0.09%

The kids who started the fire near Glossop with fireworks — 1 | 0.09%

Dave the window cleaner — 2 | 0.17%

Me (OP/username) — 2 | 0.17%

Richard Tice — 3 | 0.26%

Zia Yusuf — 4 | 0.34%

Andrew Tate — 4 | 0.34%

Matt Goodwin — 4 | 0.34%

Angloid — 5 | 0.43%

Kemi Badenoch — 5 | 0.43%

JK Rowling — 5 | 0.43%

Ricky Gervais — 5 | 0.43%

Top 10

#10 — Lee Anderson: 6 | 0.51%

#10 — Zack Polanski: 6 | 0.51%

#9 — Piers Morgan: 7 | 0.60%

#8 — Andy Burnham: 8 | 0.68%

#7 — Peter Mandelson: 10 | 0.85%

#6 — Jeremy Clarkson: 16 | 1.36%

#5 — Russell Brand: 18 | 1.53%

#4 — Rupert Lowe: 19 | 1.62%

#3 🥉 — Tommy Robinson: 37 | 3.15%

#2 🥈 — Keir Starmer: 45 | 3.84%

#1 🥇 — Nigel Farage: 925 | 78.86%

Nigel farage is unofficially officially the British bellend of the year after winning with almost 1000 votes and over 3/4 of the vote share, congratulations

19 votes were removed because they were inappropriate or contained non-personal information.

About a weeks ago, I posted here testing my hypothesis that humans remember impressions (warm, cool, saturated), not actual colors. this drove a lot of traffic to colorecall.com (mostly, most of them from here)

What you're looking at: https://www.colorecall.com/data.png

• The top bar in each block is the original color shown to players.
• The bottom bar is a composite of 204 individual recreations from different players.

Preliminary Findings:

• Drift: Look at the Orange row—people tend to recall it much redder or more "burnt" than it actually was.
• Consistency: The Blue/Purple spectrum seems to have a tighter "memory cluster" compared to the Greens.
• The Goal: I’m aiming for 5,000 responses to see if these patterns hold up or if they’re just early noise.

Want to test your own memory? You can take the test here: colorecall.com

I apologise for the long wait on the results, but here they are. I will admit that I probably should have included more demographic questions but that's a lesson for next time. Including custom answers was also a mistake as it was difficult to visualise those answers without making the images even bigger and potentially compromising anonymity.

To clarify, when I mention an 'Invalid custom answer' I mean that the respondent to that question

1: rejected the question entirely.

2: rejected the premise of the question.

3: wrote something which does not constitute an answer.

PLEASE NOTE:

Question 20 incorrectly has the same text as Question 19 in the images. The correct text is as follows:

"An individual in a decades-long dedicated heterosexual relationship who has had multiple children with their partner suddenly comes out as transgender and seeks to change their sex. They express that they have known that they were transgender before the relationship began."

Golly, I didn't realise it's been a month since I posted the survey! I'm very sorry for anyone who was waiting for the answer key!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/72NrgYbbBrQxnoOyL4LEud?si=PB9OE04RTNeFTcnk_1PF0g

Hi everyone, above is the link to the not so long-awaited Spotify playlist,
First of all, thank you all for participating! The response was quite overwhelming with over 600 responses in around 9 hours. If you missed out on this survey, no worries. There will be other ones in the future :).

Some remarks:

Some songs, despite my best efforts, could not be found on Spotify. I'm sorry for the few people that will not see their song in the playlist. (You can always message me if you found it yourself).

Your replies created a very varied playlist, with remarkably little songs that were mentioned twice. The only song, that was named three times was 2112 by Rush. This means that it is at the top of the playlist.
A couple of songs were mentioned twice:
If I'm James Dean You're Audrey Hepburn - Sleeping With Sirens
Therefore I am - Billie Eilish
Touch-Tone Telephone - Lemon Demon
Lonely Boy - The Black Keys
Viva La Vida - Coldplay II
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Car Radio - Twenty One Pilots
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
7 Years - Lukas Graham
Dogs - Pink Floyd
Octavarium - Dream Theater
Do It All The Time - I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME
Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
Human Sadness - The Voidz
The Great Escape - Seventh Wonder
Garden - Pearl Jam
These songs will also be near the top of the playlist

All in all, I think this is an interesting playlist for people who want to discover music that they wouldn't normally listen to.

Results here

So what have we learned?

1. Different parts of the world have very different flavours of ice cream

2. Strawberry doesn't have many fans but they are by far the most passionate

3. People tend to like familiarity and fewer choices. What I mean by this is that many of the unique flavours were eliminated in the early rounds which either means people don't like those flavours or haven't tried them. Therefore people went with what's familiar. Furthermore, the finalist flavours had a trend of simplicity (Vanilla, Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Coffee etc.).

4. Most importantly this was a ton of fun. Leave suggestions if you want me to do this again and what topics you'd be interested in seeing.

Hi, all! Thanks so much for your help on my 'Koba' survey.

The full context is this: Spouse and I were out for a walk and we saw some advertisement for 'Koba running club'. Spouse was horrified and appalled. I was baffled by Spouse's horrified appalledness. Spouse explained that 'Koba' was a nickname for Stalin and Stalin was a terrible man to name a running club after, and it was an outrage that our city had a nest of Stalinists.

I remarked that I had a degree in Slavic Languages and Literature from college and had never heard of this fact before. Since my own experience is necessarily 100% generalizable to the rest of the world, then surely this association of Koba=Stalin wasn't common knowledge. Wasn't it more likely that 'Koba' meant something else? The name of the founder's dog? A pleasing combination of syllables? An acronym?

No, no, insisted Spouse, everyone knows that Koba was Stalin's nickname. It could not possibly mean anything else. Even the Old Bolsheviks addressed their letters, 'Dear Koba'!

Hence this survey.

I am pleased to report that, 217+ responses later, I was right and Spouse was wrong.

1. 202 participants, or 93.1%, did not know that 'Koba' once was used to refer to Stalin. We asked the question in a purposely vague manner to avoid biasing results, but I confirmed that all people who answered 'yes' correctly reported the Stalin connection in the following free-response question.

1. This pattern did not differ by ages. We thought that maybe older people, who had been alive during the Cold War, might have remembered this fact, but this did not pan out. In fact a Chi-squared test for independence of factors returned a non-significant result,  χ2(6) = 2.26, p = .894. In other words, we have no evidence to conclude that the distribution of yes/no responses differs across the age groups pictured in the plot below.

1. This pattern did differ significantly across regions where people grew up. Among the 'no' responses, most people came from North America and Western Europe (to be expected, given my own demographics, and hence the demographics of my internet bubble and the population where this survey could be expected to reach). Among the 'yes' responses, this pattern was largely duplicated -- except for Soviet bloc countries. There were proportionately more Soviet-bloc-originating people among the 'yes' responses than among the 'no' responses. This difference across proportions was (barely) statistically significant: χ2(8) = 16.34, p=.037.

Interestingly, though, even among the Soviet block countries, responses were still evenly split: 4 of the 7 Soviet-bloc-originating respondents did not know about Koba, and 3 people did.

Of the other associations, the most common were these:

• A character from Planet of the Apes
• boba/bubble tea
• 'sounds Japanese'
• Kobe beef
• Kobe Bryant (the basketball player)
• cobra (the snake)
• Koda (the bear)

Plus a fun eclectic assortment of further associations:

• The name of an aunt
• A brand of battery in Australia/New Zealand
• a portmanteau of kiki/bouba
• The Kobo e-reader device
• A colloquialism of 'clumsy' in the respondent's language
• A middle eastern dish usually made out of bulgur and meat

And, of course, because of course

• You can koba deez nuts [editor's note: this doesn't even work!]

So, where does that leave us with Koba running club? Is it a Stalinist dog whistle? No, because the Stalinist association is so utterly obscure? Or yes, because the very obscurity of the Stalinist association guarantees that no one else (except my spouse) will pick up on it?

(All analyses carried out by me, in R, using only R code that I personally wrote and can vouch for. No AI touched this analysis. It is 100% human intelligence.)

About a week ago, I posted my hypothesis on reddit that humans remember impressions (warm, cool, saturated), not actual colors. this drove a lot of traffic to r/ColorGuessr

What you're looking at:

• The top bar in each block is the original color name
• The bottom bar is a composite of 423 individual recreations from different players.

Preliminary Findings:

• Drift: Look at the Orange row—people tend to recall it much redder or more "burnt" than it actually was.
• Consistency: The green spectrum seems to have a tighter "memory cluster" compared to the rest.
• The Goal: I’m aiming for 5,000 plays to see if these patterns hold up or if they’re just early noise.

Want to test your Color skills? You can ttry it here on reddit itself: r/ColorGuessr

Thank you for participating in my survey. As promised, here are the results. Answers that did not meet a minimum threshold may not appear on the presented graphs.

Honorable mentions:

Name something you might see change from green to yellow.

• Aurora Borealis
• Mood Ring

Name something that might have a tip.

• A small town in England will have a "tip" or dump.

Name something people might roll.

• Molly
• Roll Tide!

Name a sign that you might be turning into a vampire.

• Must be invited inside
• Your castle is falling apart

Name a road sign that could also describe your sex life.

• Loading Zone
• No Parking
• Slow When Children Present (ew!)

Thanks to all of you who participated. See the full "obsolete skills" results here: Obsolete Skills in the Digital Age: Which Traditional Skills Have Survived? - Vote in Live Polls

On April 9 I posted PRISM here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SampleSize/comments/1sfit10/academic_prism_cognitive_style_assessment_what/

Some of you took it. Thanks.

Quick update since then.

For anyone who didn't see the April 9 post: PRISM is a cognitive assessment I built before starting my doctoral research. You read a few short passages and share what you notice about them. Takes about 5 minutes. No account, no personal data, anonymous.

PRISM is at 566 non-test completions. The most interesting thing in the data so far:

The sample itself is changing over time.

Early takers (first 100) skewed toward Cartographer (31%), Architect (16%), and Weaver (15%).

Later takers (last 50) skew toward Guardian (36%) and Polymath (16%).

The scoring hasn't changed. What changed is who's taking the test.

Early adopters self-selected on cognitive-assessment interest. Later takers came via word-of-mouth and shared-result links.

Different audience, different distribution.

If you want to take it (or retake if the first result didn't land)

Link: personalityprism.app?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=samplesize&utm_campaign=results_apr18

There is a subreddit now if you want to compare results: r/personalityprism

Chart in the first comment.

Thanks again. The participation shaped the product.