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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2011-02-25 05:11 pm

Dear makers of this map


visited 8 states (61.5%)
Create your own visited map of Canada

A: Canada has provinces, not states.

B: New Brunswick is not spelled "New Brinswick".

C: James Bay is not its own territory/province.

Re: Survey

[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2011-02-26 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
OK, consensus: spam or unaware of confirmation bias? Note that there's no way I am clicking on that link.
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Re: Survey

[personal profile] beable 2011-02-27 07:17 am (UTC)(link)

homework spam! my favourite!

It fails to meet the "poor spelling" criteria (mangled English not withstanding - the individual words appear correctly spelt), but otherwise it fits all the criteria of homework spam!

I think this begs a poll on whether your readers are qualified to respond as "competent people" as well as secondary polls on the nature of competency, the nature of international relations, and whether - given the possibly biblical nature of the international relations - one should be required to be 18+ to click on Maria Suslova's survey.[1]


1: Note that I have not actually clicked on the link either. Without a poll to add confirmation bias to my own sense of competency, I do not consider myself in any way qualified to respond to the issue of international relations [2]

2: Though I have a not-so short list of international 'ers I would feel qualified to conduct relations with. But that is neither here nor there. Unless Johnny Depp or John Barrowman are reading your blog.[3]

3: Hey, neither are Canadian, as far as I know. A girl can dream, right?

Re: Survey

[personal profile] hattifattener 2011-02-27 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
Feeling foolhardy, I clicked on the link. It looks like a fairly normal survey of perceptions of ethnic relations. Many questions were phrased to force certain equivalencies, but I find that's true of lots of surveys.

Also, please buy some Viagra and Cialis.