It’s a little chilly in your house, but you don’t want to turn on the heat. Would you rather wear:
- Shorts with a cozy sweatshirt
- Cozy sweatpants with a tank top
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Don’t look at a clock. Don’t think about it for more than a second. Guess what time it is. How close were you?
- Less than 60 seconds off
- 1-2 minutes off
- 3-5 minutes off
- 6-10 minutes off
- 11-15 minutes off
- 16-20 minutes off
- 21-30 minutes off
- 31-60 minutes off
- More than 60 minutes off
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Was the accuracy of your answer to the poll about guessing what time it was affected by the fact that you’d checked the time right before opening this page?
Pick up to two.
- Yes; I often have a poor idea of what time it is, but I had just checked the time, so my guess was close.
- No; I hadn’t checked the time for quite a while, but I knew the time within a few minutes anyway.
- No; I hadn’t checked the time for quite a while, and my guess was way off.
- No; I had checked the time quite recently, but my guess was way off anyway.
- Other
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Inspired by another thread, even if it is kinda sorta similar to Mean Mr. Mustard’s poll from January.
What methods do you use to listen to audio in your car? Choose all the ones you use at least fairly regularly.
- FM radio
- AM radio
- CD player – in dash or trunk
- Cassette player – in dash
- Satellite radio
- External device (phone, iPod, CD player, etc.) plugged into an aux port
- External device over Bluetooth
- External device plugged into one of those cassette adaptors
- External device plugged into a USB port
- USB drive plugged into the car’s USB port, played through the car’s media player
- External device played through the device’s own speaker, or a seprate speaker, not connected to the car’s audio sustem
- Streaming apps included with the car’s entertainment system
- Nothing, I drive in silence
- Some other way
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How often do you test your smoke/CO detectors?
- Weekly, of course, just like the users’ manual tells me to do.
- Monthly or so.
- Quarterly or so.
- Yearly or so.
- Never
- Never, because I have frequent enough kitchen disasters that I am confident my alarms are working
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I thought it was Ted Cruz’s Dad?
For people who are strictly hetero- or homosexual:
I can imagine myself being attracted to a different gender than usual if I met the right person.
- Yes
- No
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Personality/trait-wise, which of your parents are you more similar to?
- I am more like my mother
- I am more like my father
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G.I. Joe taught us that knowing is half the battle. What is the other half?
- Plausible deniability
- Extreme violence
- Colorful costumes
- Fan faction
- Marketing
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Have you ever stuck your tongue to a frozen metal object, like a flagpole?
- Yes, and it stuck and I required assistance to get free
- Yes, and it stuck but I was able to free myself without assistance
- I tried it but it didn’t stick
- I know someone who has, and it stuck, and they required assistance to get free
- I know someone who has, and it stuck, but they were able to free themself without assistance
- I know someone who tried it but it didn’t stick.
- I have neither done it nor know anyone who has
- It didn’t get cold enough to do this where I grew up
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Your experience with the beginning and end of life
- As a child I was in the room during a birth
- As a child I was in the room during a death
- As an adult I have been in the room during a birth
- As an adult I have been in the room during a death
- I have never witnessed a birth in person
- I have never witnessed a death in person
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Did you mark “As a child I was in the room during a birth” because you were counting your own birth?
- Yes
- No.
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What’s the first thing you think when you see the acronym “BLM”?
- Black Lives Matter
- Bureau of Land Management
- Something else
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What’s the first thing you think when you see the acronym “WWF”?
- World Wildlife Fund
- World Wrestling Federation
- Something else
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“Your own kids grow up slowly, but other people’s kids grow up quickly.” As a parent, do you find this saying true?
- yes
- no
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For those who are still in your working years, how often do you think about your retirement?
- Daily or almost daily
- A few times a week
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Quarterly
- 2-3 times per year
- Maybe once a year
- Never or almost never
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Proximity of your closest neighbor
- Directly on the other side of this wall
- Detached, but I could literally reach out a window and touch the side of their house
- Detached, and close, but I’d need a broom or something to actually touch the side of their house from my window
- 5 - 10 yards (15 - 30 feet)
- 10 - 25 yards
- 25 - 50 yards
- 50 - 100 yards
- More than 100 yards
- Far enough that I can’t see them
- A distance I’d measure in miles
- Far enough
- I don’t really know
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Your Top Three favorite post-WWII Presidents
- Truman
- Eisenhower
- JFK
- LBJ
- Nixon
- Ford
- Carter
- Reagan
- George H.W. Bush
- Clinton
- George W. Bush
- Obama
- Trump
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Your Top Three losing post-WWII major-party candidates whom you REALLY wish had won
- Dewey, 1948
- Stevenson, 1952
- Stevenson, 1956
- Nixon, 1960
- Goldwater, 1964
- Humphrey, 1968
- McGovern, 1972
- Ford, 1976
- Carter, 1980
- Mondale, 1984
- Dukakis, 1988
- Bush, 1992
- Dole, 1996
- Gore, 2000
- Kerry, 2004
- McCain, 2008
- Romney, 2012
- Clinton, 2016
- Trump, 2020
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You figure that the people voting Trump 2020 in the last poll were
- Serious. They think Trump would be better than Biden
- Not serious. You don’t know what they were thinking, but they can’t be serious
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Estimation test:
Let’s say you are depositing film layers on a silicon wafer. You deposit 2^64 - 1 layers of 20 Angstrom thickness each. How much do you think that is?
- Couple inches
- 2.64 Karens
- Taller than your house
- 33 stories
- Reaches the moon
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