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[-] gon@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

I mean, how serious are these surveys? I can see myself answering HTML is an STD as a joke.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

And JS is the cure. Obviously.

[-] gon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I got diagnosed with Hyper Transmittable Meat Leprosy 5 years ago... At least I have JavaScript to keep the worst of the symptoms at bay.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

It's amazing how one pain can diminish another

[-] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Take two php and call me in the morning

[-] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Here's the original

https://www.science.org/content/article/one-10-americans-thinks-html-sexually-transmitted-disease

According to the Los Angeles Times, the study questioned more than 2300 adults and was conducted by vouchercloud.net, a coupon website that wanted to know how much tech jargon the public knows.

So probably not that serious

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

I don't know, given the type of people who frequent "coupon websites," I wouldn't be that surprised if they were answering seriously.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Probably a lot of people clicking whatever just to get their coupons.

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

Probably not a joke but simply people answering multiple choice survey wrong because they don't know. Most likely answer is that most of those people simply have no clue about html instead

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Either it is a multiple-choice that the surveyor fucked up and put STD as an option. Or it is an open question and the "one in 10" is legit.

[-] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It was a 3 option multiple choice according to the original article

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"What is HTML?"

  • A markup language
  • STD
  • I don't know
[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

It was done by a coupons website. 12% of the people thought USB was an European country. 18% that blu-ray is an animal. 15% that software is clothing...

There is no way that people were serious.

[-] gon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Soft-wear...

[-] sp00nix@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 year ago

Buddy and I had to meet with the school counselor for talking about PHP.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

That's fair tho

[-] hare_ware@pawb.social 19 points 1 year ago

PHP is one hell of a drug.

[-] WindInTrees@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

"Son, I need to talk to you about your PHP use. It's a dangerous thing, and something you don't want to fall into. I know a few long-time PHP users - they're sad people, spending most of their time raving about syntax and garbage open source projects."

[-] Moxvallix@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Millions of US adults catch HTML every year. There is no cure or treatment.

[-] z3n0x@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

Just a mild case of HTML but I'd get that CSS checked out ...

I can't believe that's recent. I could still see HTML maybe, but my 70+ year old mom knows what an mp3 is.

[-] TauZero@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

10% of 250 million is 25 million and millions of people could not be wrong. Checkmate!

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

So they are nerdy enough to know Star Wars but not nerdy enough to know what HTML is?

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Star wars is nerdy? One of the most popular theme parks in the world is star wars themed and they have multiple movies that are in the top 50 highest grossing of all time, ever.

Star wars is general pop culture and one of the most successful and widely known fiction franchises of all time.

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm just aging myself. That wasn't always the case.

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yes it was,, star wars was a massive hit going all the way back to opening weekend for episode 4.

Star wars was immediately a cultural phenomenon from its inception.

Here is a quote from it's wikipedia page:

Star Wars remains one of the most financially successful films of all time. The film opened on a Wednesday in 32 theaters expanding to 43 screens on the Friday and earning $2,556,418 in its first six days to the end of the Memorial Day weekend[223] ($12.3 million in 2022 dollars). Per Variety's weekly box office charts, the film was number one at the US box office for its first three weeks. It was replaced by The Deep but gradually added screens and returned to number one in its seventh week, building up to $7 million weekends as it entered wide release ($33.8 million in 2022 dollars)[3] and remained number one for the next 15 weeks. It replaced Jaws as the highest-earning film in North America just six months into release,[224] eventually earning over $220 million during its initial theatrical run ($1.06 billion in 2022 dollars).[225] Star Wars entered international release towards the end of the year, and in 1978 added the worldwide record to its domestic one,[226] earning $410 million in total.[227] Its biggest international market was Japan, where it grossed $58.4 million.[228]

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I certainly agree it was successful, and that it wowed audiences on it's release (not that I witnessed first hand, I'm not THAT old). However, from what I remember popular media often depicted anyone interested in sci-fi (including Star Wars), comics, videogames, etc., as nerds.

That's all I'm saying.

[-] TheV2@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Well, what's the portion of U.S. adults who take random surveys too serious?

[-] CarrieForle@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

HTML sounds enough like a disease

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

Hyper Thyroid and Malignant Ligaments

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

React is a disease.

EDIT: sorry to any recent bootcamp graduates I offended

[-] gon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

hater behaviour

[-] AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

React isn't even bad or hard to learn. You just are stuck in your ways.

  • Software Engineer of 10 years so not a recent boot camp dev
[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I ain't even mad. It's heartwarming to hear they're teaching software classes at the retirement home.

[-] Maheswara@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago

Probably... There might be a STD name same as HTML..

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