Comment on xkcd #3075: Anachronym Challenge

• bonn2@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I guess count me in that 10,000 as well

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  • zabadoh@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wow, so 20,000 people read this?

    Lemmy’s more popular than I thought.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah… that’s really not in the 1 in 10k catagory. Not even the 1 in 10 catagory.

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  • cactus_head@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i pretty sure those numbers are in reverse, at least if i understand you correctly. Its 1 in 10(lots of ppl know) then 1 in 10(less ppl know) and so on.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nope. Not reversed. The guy I responded to thinks that almost everyone (9,999 out of 10,000) knows sidewalk chalk isn’t made out of chalk. I’m saying it’s not even as common as 9 out of 10 know that sidewalk chalk isn’t made out of chalk.

      In fact, I’d say the odds are more like 1 out of 2, at best. Possibly even that more people would give the wrong answer than the right one.

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      • cactus_head@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In that case, i think its the opposite

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• Bgugi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would say it’s probably a lot less than ten thousand - I doubt this is something “everybody knows”

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