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What time is it? You might be curious as to how little time this took, later. => 


Recently used "wibe" style questionnaires for a project recently which worked pretty well. People seemed to have fun filling out plain text boxes with a 0-9 followed by a comment. It can be lightning fast but it also allows for open ended answers. People also got started quickly, if you'd believe that. The data was i interesting and somewhat useful.


 We did had a laugh when two submitters answered 4 and 7 to the following question:


Do you live in a rural place?  
How rural? Eg. "1, i live in Manhattan, it's big" or "9 I live in the middle of a forest, located in the middle of nowhere."


A five you might surmise means your average suburb. 
And yes, they live next door to each other.


Now you might argue this is a perfect illustration that 
a) questionnaires are stupid and useless because 
b) rating scales are stupid and useless.


If i wanted to have the answer to that question I'd consider checking their physical location, check the population density, or just do both with some mashup of the IP and some database. Right?  


However, did we learn anything here, and if so what?  Did they answer anything useful?  Could this be improved?


Regardless of the size of the city they live in one believes it's somewhat of a city and the other thinks it's a textbook little berg. Who's right? Both I'd say. But what i found the most interesting is the mindset.


I'm sure bias can be somewhat reduced by better questions and examples. Or use sanctioned formats and scales. And if one thought survey answers are quantitative things one might be moved to do that. But that's another story. The difference between the answer and the expected answer is interesting.  


Love your thoughts. (these boxes are pretty anonymous)

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Special Dinner Party

Rules for egalitarian objects

You are known by where you're FROM You aren't required TO point You point TO anywhere you see fit You may make children FROM places trusting you. There is only one. Kind.

The issue of writing a wibing scenario

How to write a scenario where people are wibing?

Just have people butt in on things the narrator finds curious.

Still liking this Swype with stylus thing. 8@Wiber right on. Did you fully master the text editing bit yet?
4@Bolt you progressives are so predictable.
/3@Torrent bolt you really should get out more. No wonder you're plotting to rip humanity a new one.
//2@Bolt speak for yourself bleeder. Hope there's a lot of you or this will be no fun at all.
//4@Still other than your obvious weirdness and wish for lambasting i don't appreciate you using my name in such a Dickish sentence.
9@Serene lulz at the evil love birds. Which one of you had the good graces to be born as an anal probe? And 8#Wiber, how did you manage to get then so. .  Peeved?