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- isuldor, on 11/14/2007, -3/+103did you try scrolling down? it does show the results for each image.
- sinembarg0, on 10/12/2007, -24/+121A high school senior, Jimbo is visiting the campus at Harvard, to help him decide if he would like to go there or not. He is looking for the main office, but is having no luck, so he finds a student and asks "Where is the main office at?"
The student replies "You don't attend here, do you?"
Jimbo says with astonishment "No, I don't. How'd you know?"
To which the student replies "Here at Harvard, we speak proper English. We don't end our sentences with prepositions. Would you like to try your question again?"
Jimbo retorts "Where is the main office at, *****?"
Moral: Don't end sentences with prepositions or prepositional phrases. - tomisina, on 10/12/2007, -2/+70there's a click test on my website... just click any of the ads and i'll tell you which one you clicked
- cpritchard, on 10/12/2007, -10/+62Contrary to popular opinion, no rule states that it is incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition. A principle of style, however, declares that one should not end a sentence with a preposition when one has a graceful alternative. As Theodore M. Bernstein says in The Careful Writer (Atheneum: 1968), "It is well to consider that a sentence ending with a preposition is sometimes clumsy, often weak." But Bernstein adds that "a preposition can itself provide strength at the end of a sentence." "This occurs," he says, "when the preposition carries real import and the verb has a rather low charge; in such instances heavy stress . . . falls on the preposition, and idiom declares that it appear at the end."
Moral: sinembarq0 is a dick. - Soldan, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44well I am an abnormal clicker...... but I scratch my nads like the common man..
- arnar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38Sorry for feeding the trolls, but has it occurred to anyone here that many people here didn't know any English until we were 15 years old? Some actually learn English by watching TV?
The grammar rules/conventions you are discussing here are certainly not something that was emphasized in my English (as a foreign language) classes.
Unless you can correct my Icelandic, get off your high horses. - jull1234, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36Made it through. Seems I'm your average mouseketeer.
- r3tex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29I thought it was really strange that there was such a high frequency of users clicking in the corners.
Why would people do that? Trying to be special / different? hmmm =/ - ersnyder, on 10/12/2007, -8/+31Up your screen resolution from 800X600 and you will see there is more below.
- adinb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Interesting that when not in the center, there's almost always hot axis of symmetry.
- edilclyde, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21now its on digg, few days later, it will all be yellow...
- ricree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Agreed. I especially liked the one with the lines crossed. It was pretty neat how the line of clicks almost perfectly bisected the two other lines. Definitely interesting.
- HCJfilms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17The patterns formed are typical for experiments with chaos... It makes us almost look programmed... Very cool to observe and by one of the coolest reads I've ever had on digg...
- jull1234, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Ducked?
- AnteChronos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I thought it was really interesting that the image with the intersecting lines had a high proportion of clicks along an imaginary line bisecting the angle. While I expect to find people clicking on features in the image, clicking on a *calculated* feature is a pretty cool result.
- ohhsnap, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16And it's also the Internet.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13click as fast as you can:
http://www.urban75.com/Mag/java7.html
don't click:
http://www.dontclick.it/ - jtrost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Very cool. If you get a 500 error, click back and click on the image again. After you're done all of your clicks will still be saved.
- kingfelix, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13"Moral: Don't end sentences with prepositions or prepositional phrases."
That's the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put. - gfixler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10“This is the sort of English up with which I cannot put.”
-Winston Churchill, supposedly
http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/050.html - spargo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Is it just me, or do the majority of the "~40,000 people" that have done this just leave the mouse in one spot and click through like I did?
- ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9ok, I'll say it. More pictures of stuff, like boobies.
- betterth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@arnar
We don't speak English at the lowest common denominator.
Just because you have English as a second language doesn't mean that I do. I should not sacrifice studying and understanding the grammar of my language or teaching those around me to use this language correctly just because it's not /your/ primary language.
I can't correct your Icelandic, but I can correct your English. If for some reason I ever learn Icelandic, feel free to show me the err in my writing, as I'm sure it will exist. - Vokas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It takes 20 seconds, is that really long enough to be termed boring?
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Are you guys kidding? I was on the edge of my seat THE WHOLE TIME.
- bradleyland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"I thought it was really strange that there was such a high frequency of users clicking in the corners.
Why would people do that? Trying to be special / different? hmmm =/"
Fashionable non-conformists. - HunterTV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Results are probably skewed by the fact that you know that you're being tested on where you click (at least in the case of this Digg article). It'd be more interesting to present an actual interface of sorts, like, "click anywhere to close this box" etc. More familiar situations in other words. Still interesting though.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This would be better if hte square wasn't the exact same size and in the same position as the previous one. I dare say that most people barely move their mouse/pointer from one page to the next because of it.
Forcing people to move their mouse to get IN the rectangle in the first place would be more informative. - dw2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Did anyone else see the first page, then automatically click Skip>> thinking it was an ad?
- MadSeen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6wish some of the pictures were more complex, like the big X one you can still easily make out the X, and same for the smiley face, would be cool to see the same results for a mountain landscape or something.
- ohhsnap, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12True, especially the ***** part.
- gommle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6210 *Hold enter*
- chipitople, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6the results look pretty cool
- rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Interesting to see where the 'hotspots' are for each image. Like the line down the center of the black and white image, and the (non-existent) nose of the smiley face. Also the image with the to intersecting lines, and the hotspot being a line directly between both of them, very interesting.
- morninglorii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I would hope the results are displayed in percentages rather than totals...
- AnotherName, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4agreed. there should have been alot more of them, with some pictures and such.
- harlowsmonkeys, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6The notion that a sentence should not end with a preposition was introduced into English in the 18th century, by an English clergyman and Latin scholar named Robert Lowth. He basically decided that this was a rule, and it somehow caught on among the psuedo-educated, despite the fact that nearly all the great writers of English routinely ended sentences with prepositions. Grammarians have been trying to stamp this silly notion out ever since.
(And while we are at it, there is also no rule in English against splitting infinitives. That too is a case where someone simply arbitrarily decided that we shouldn't do that, and this new made-up rule caught on in some circles).
As far as the "*****" joke goes, that was a poor telling of it. Jimbo would not be astonished that the Harvard student knows that Jimbo is not a student there. That is easily deducible from the fact that Jimbo is asking for the main office. - TimTim, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7HCJfilms: It makes us almost look programmed...
That's because we are! We are all running Brains 1.0! Looks like it's time for an upgrade. - ggko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5That, and there's probably people who thought "Hah, I'll show this test who's in command. I'll click the same spot for *every* image!" Only to discover 10,000 others did the same. The corners, edge midpoints, and corresponding axes were hotspots for pretty much all the images.
- Snof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yes, but I think since we know we're being tested we try to "beat" the system by clicking where we think they don't expect it. That creates secondary regions with lots of clicks. When I took the test I first thought, "where's the obvious place to click?" Then I thought, "where's the opposite of the obvious place?" Then I clicked somewhere that was far from both of those places. The result was that none of my clicks were near highly concentrated areas. Of course, I don't really know what I'm talking about here, just hypothesizing about what may be happening in this test.
- MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I thought the rectangle is a Flash animation that didn't load properly and stayed blank. I waited a few seconds before I just clicked on it.
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yeah, because by rebelling you're actually conforming. Big surprise!
- arnar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@betterth: Point taken, thank you - and I agree with you. I commend anyone that takes good care of their language.
What p*sses me off though are forums like this, where people from all over the world meet to communicate and share opinions - many of whom don't have other means to do that, and all they get are some obscure (even controversial) corrections on their grammar. Although I must admit, this particular thread was not totally about that - so I apologize for posting my reply to this thread instead of countless others that I might have.
This free sharing of opinions kind of makes the world a place I want to live in, so this is a heartfelt issue to me. Being hostile to people one knows nothing about, over some irrelevant issues, works against that. Again, this was not the case here - now I'm just sharing my opinions :o) In fact (and hindsight) sinembarg0's comment was nothing of the sort I was thinking of.
btw. if you'd like to learn some Icelandic I'd be happy to teach you :o) - Lyanto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4When you look at the results, the smiley face looks kinda... satanic.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12What are you, 12? Are you incapable of commenting without being so vulgar?
- Somniis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yep, that's what I did...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is just like http://www.FavoritePart.com except FavoritePart.com uses interesting pictures of real things, not shapes.
- mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@gfixler
Bartleby.com is wrong! Churchill said: "That's the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I cannot put." - Caleb83, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's also interesting how, on the 8th image, where it shows 2 lines bisecting each other... The series of clicks also make two lines (separate from the two visible lines) which also bisect each other and meet at the same point as the two visible lines.
- smallSHEEP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well according to that survey adverts should be placed in the middle of web pages, it also helps if the web page is blank apart from the advert.
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