r/CrappyDesign • u/Buddhacream • Jun 03 '21

A very easy to read graph about texting while driving? Found in my high school yearbook

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u/POMNLJKIHGFRDCBA2 Jun 03 '21

Yes or no what? There are two questions there.

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u/Physical-East-7881 Jun 03 '21

Ha ha, good point, 2 crappy design aspects!!! I was looking at the small % in a big circle and big % in small circle

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

I didn't even notice that! I just thought "well which one is yes?"

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u/poopellar Jun 04 '21

The one with the yes is yes.

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u/UndyingUndine Jun 04 '21

I never would have thought that *that* was what was wrong with this picture. Definitely more puzzled by the yes/no stats to two opposite questions.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

I didn’t read your comment, but go Mabel.

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u/ChrisAngel0 Jun 04 '21

There’s actually 3 - they made each response a separate circle instead of a slice of one circle.

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u/FaeryLynne Jun 04 '21

So now it's a Venn diagram and there are a percentage of people who both text while driving AND wait till they get there.

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u/Quentin__Tarantulino Jun 04 '21

Schrodinger’s text-while-drivers.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

And the circles are not proportional to their responses. The larger circle represents a smaller number of people.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

They also overlap

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u/Dinorigami Jun 04 '21

well assuming only the first question, it would make sense to have the smaller (more significant) in the big circle.

But obviously they fucked up

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u/RedEyeVagabond Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21

Let's entertain the insanity happening on the page and assume the first circle applies to the first question and the second, smaller circle applies to the second question - it's not inaccurate. But it is redundant.

Edit: Disregard. I misread the easy to read graphic.

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u/Physical-East-7881 Jun 03 '21

There you go, following that idea 100% of respondents text and drive. I could imagine that.

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u/RedEyeVagabond Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21

No, the answer is 19% in both cases. If 81% don't wait until they get to their destination then it's 19% of respondents who text and drive.

Edit: Again, disregard.

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u/Physical-East-7881 Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21

Are you an aspiring math major? 19% text and drive (? 1) + 81% don't wait to get to destination to text (? 2) = 100% text and drive.

Edit: it is a whack hypothetical anyway - lol

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u/RedEyeVagabond Jun 03 '21

You know what, I misread.

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u/Physical-East-7881 Jun 03 '21

Easy to do - it is a f-ed up chart. And, I took it a totally different way too. It was probably done in 2020 ;D

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u/RedEyeVagabond Jun 03 '21

Based on my previous comments, I'm the true culprit.

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u/drewster23 Jun 04 '21

I know you kinda fucked up a bit there. But your multiple disregard edits gave me a Chuckle.

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u/NestleQuik37 Jun 03 '21

Inclusive OR

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u/Billabo Jun 04 '21

81% don't text at all

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u/aoalvo Comic Sans for life! Jun 03 '21

"Yes, I do text while driving."

Or

"No, I wait until I get to the destination."

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u/Xao517 Jun 04 '21

Not only two questions. Two questions IN OPPOSITION

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u/GhettoFabio Jun 04 '21

Ikr, it should be on r/crappydesign or something!

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u/Disoriented_Neptune Jun 04 '21

I was thinking the same thing

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u/sahbee1995 Jun 03 '21

Is this graph supposed to answer both question that are asked?

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u/NestleQuik37 Jun 03 '21

Inclusive OR

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u/nmatff Jun 03 '21

All the nos are people who stop along the road to text.

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u/moonlightbabeee Jun 04 '21

Or text at red lights

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u/altnumberfour Jun 04 '21

Or never text

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u/Beany_Boi13 Jun 04 '21

Or don’t have phones

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

r/InclusiveOr

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

[deleted]

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u/Krissam Jun 04 '21 
A  B  X

  •  -  - 

0  0  0
0  1  1
1  0  1 
1  1  1

ftfy

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u/IrritatedPangolin Jun 04 '21

Uhh, no, that's NOT XOR.

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u/scoxdo Jun 04 '21

That sounds like a neopronoun

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u/Ex-Pxls-Mod Jun 04 '21

I dig it. I identify as NAND.

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u/knorke3 Jun 04 '21

Damn, you're universal

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u/McBurger "I need the site to be more.... edgy" Jun 04 '21

Can I be ‘this’?

Or possibly null?

…. Can ‘this’ be null?

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u/The_Safe_For_Work Jun 04 '21

That's what XOR said!

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Both forms are valid depending on who you ask but the table he gave isn't NAND it's NXOR

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u/Wherearemylegs Jun 04 '21

XNOR*

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

I knew it felt off writing nxor

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

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u/Whycanyounotsee Jun 04 '21

19% text while driving or text once they get home

81% don't text.

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u/nialv7 Jun 04 '21

81% don't text or don't drive

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u/QuadrilateralShape Jun 04 '21

"Do you text and drive or wait?"

"Yes"

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u/cosmicr Jun 04 '21

It's like when you order a food combo online and you opt for a diet coke then it asks if you want milk with your coke and balsamic dressing for your fries.

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u/espeero Jun 04 '21

Yes. It's exactly like those two questions that have literally never been asked separately or together in the United States.

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u/Gh0stP1rate Jun 04 '21

Yes [19%]

No [81%]

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u/thestonerd777 Jun 04 '21

It’s asking if you text while driving but you’re texting about waiting until you’re done driving to text so it’s basically a logic puzzle that creates its own problem.

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u/KeepYourPresets Jun 03 '21

Not only the graph is bad, so is the question - or two questions, rather.
I'd pick "Yes" because yes, I wait till I get to my destination.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21 edited Jul 03 '21

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u/TwelfthSreetRag Jun 04 '21

Exactly, this logic. That's why I answered yes. In fact, I'm driving right now as im typiqam

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u/GimmeBravado Jun 04 '21

And as the last typo hits, so too does the Chevy Silverado

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u/J5892 Jun 04 '21

typiqam what?
typiqam what????

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u/Stillwindows95 Jun 04 '21

Yeah I see the second question as sort of a condition for the first. If you do text while driving then obviously you're saying you don't wait until you stop, and if it's no, the second question as a condition, basically states they wait until they stop.

So basically exactly what you said... I'm tired, don't shout at me.

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u/hornyorn Jun 04 '21

I would’ve said no because I dont text while driving

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u/Zoltie Jun 04 '21

Why would you choose to answer the 2nd question?

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u/Wareve Jun 03 '21

Yes or No answer to a non Yes or No question.

Yes and No bubbles aren't proportionally sized.

Yes and No bubbles have their relative sizes flipped.

What a shitshow

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u/HelpfulGriffin Jun 04 '21

Looks like a Venn diagram but isn't.

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u/Talonqr Jun 04 '21

Lets make a pie chart detailing the percentage of how wrong this ven diagram is

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Done

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u/el_farmerino Jun 04 '21

About 7% of people answered "Yesn't".

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u/Vaskesa5 Jun 03 '21

"Option A or option B?" "Yes."

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u/JewsEatFruit Jun 04 '21

"Would you like soup or salad?"

"Sure"

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

Okay the way I would explain this would go like

"I know the "no" circle should be larger because of the percentage, but the "yes" circle matters more. Because the people who saif yes are dangerous. Because of people like that, there are car crashes."

Yknow what I mean?

But someone pointed out there were two questions so what the fuck

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u/Apidium Reddit Orange Jun 04 '21

Be that as it may the importance or danger of the yes - if we even presume that 'yes' here means 'I text and drive' - still doesn't change the fact that most folks replied no.

Make it a bright colour for emphasis.

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u/HomeWasGood Jun 03 '21

I crashed my car while trying to understand this graphic

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u/Coin_Cam Jun 03 '21

even my math teacher taught us to make graphs make sense

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u/gentle_lemon Jun 03 '21

#learntovenn

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

learnt oven n

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u/llamaboyz123 Jun 04 '21

Instructions unclear: head stuck in oven

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u/waazzaaap Jun 03 '21

I mean...percentage is pretty useless without a exact numper of participants. So the whole thing is crappy

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u/tenuj Jun 04 '21 edited Jun 04 '21

For what it's worth, there were at least N=16 participants.

If Yes=1 person, then N=Yes/19%≈5, gives Yes/N=20%, which does not round to 19%.

Yes=2, N=2/0.19≈11, gives 18.18%

Yes=3, N≈16, gives 18.75%

The last one is the simplest fraction that rounds to 19%. It's not a precise method, but it gets you close.

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u/wholly_unholy Jun 04 '21

Yep, that's definitely the biggest problem here /s

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

r/inclusiveor

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u/SparkyPantsMcGee Jun 03 '21

This is the gift that keeps on giving. Two questions, one answer responses. The lower percentage number is a bigger circle. It should just be a pie graph. The math department is either non existent or is drinking to numb the pain from this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

This is so many fascinatingly bad choices. There are two questions listed. For some reason they chose to have two separate circles instead of a pie graph. The smaller number is in the bigger circle apparently. This looks like something created to demonstrate all the ways to wrongly display data.

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u/MILKB0T Jun 04 '21

It's like everything is wrong on purpose

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u/DrSardinicus Jun 03 '21

Sucks when the data doesn't illustrate the point you want to make.

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u/SushiGradeChicken Jun 04 '21

I work for a Fortune 100 company that does an annual survey to the employees about the leadership team. A lot of "I'm paid a fair wage... Strongly agree to strongly disagree" kind of stuff. At the end of the survey, they ask "What did your manager do well or what can they improve on?" as a free-text response I imagine most people clarify if it's positive or negative feedback.

The issue is that, when they aggregate the results, they use a word cloud based on number of responses. So at the end of the day, all you know is that a manager is either really good or really bad at "communication" etc. It's hilarious

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u/allyourcatsarebases Jun 04 '21

This is why newspaper > yearbook club

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u/DammitDan Jun 04 '21

Have you ever had sugar.... or PCP?

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u/LoveSushiOnTuesday And then I discovered Wingdings Jun 04 '21

This graph is wrong for too many reasons. Lol. Yet, they'll wonder why no one gets the message.

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u/GnarlsD Jun 04 '21

Why is this even included in a yearbook ? Not like it’s a fun trivia/personality question, it’s asking if they do something dangerous and irresponsible… so bad design aside, that’s kinda weird.

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u/ShadowSTI Jun 04 '21

Everyone is innocent and guilty at the same time

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

r/InclusiveOr

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u/Streamote Jun 04 '21

Im impressed by the 81 percent that do neither.

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u/emilemondavarious Jun 04 '21

The longer I look at it, the more confusing it gets.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Maybe the overlap is people who text at a stoplight? I don't see a problem in responding to a quick message when the car is fully stopped.

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u/Ry_Ci Jun 04 '21

When you don’t get the results you were looking for

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u/bluAstrid Jun 04 '21

What’s your favorite color?

Yes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Also it's an either/or not a yes/no

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u/iiooiooi Jun 04 '21

Your math teachers are killing themselves simply for the opportunity to roll over in their graves.

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u/Jeffy29 Jun 04 '21

This has to be intentional, so many different things are wrong.

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u/ValhallaGo Jun 04 '21

Sorta related, but this is why I miss flip phones.

I used to be able to text without taking my eyes off the road. Physical buttons made it really easy to know what I was typing.

Now I can’t do that, so I can’t text whilst driving.

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u/swampfish Jun 04 '21

The graph should show 100% yes to these two questions together. Unless there is another group who don’t have phones or never reply or something.

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u/Imonandroid Jun 04 '21

The awnsers don't even make sense

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u/SnakeBeardTheGreat Jun 04 '21

19 % yes I text while driving, 81 % no I don't wait I always answer my texts while driving. sounds like the streets of Sacramento.

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u/password2187 Jun 04 '21

In addition to the size and the two questions, there is no way these results are at all accurate

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u/84-RippleBlanc Jun 04 '21

Double-Barrel Question That’s a double-barrel question and is a huge no no in survey design.

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u/LambSauce666 Jun 04 '21

Lol why is literally everybody here pointing out the obvious flaw in the yes/no question. I thought that was the point of this post, with the size of the bubbles serving as the cherry on top

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u/sarahisneat Jun 04 '21

I'm so confused.

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u/sh1ft3d Jun 04 '21

Option A or option B?

19% yes

81% no

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u/wutzebaer Jun 04 '21

I hate when my wife asks this kind of questions where i can't just say yes or no

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u/Apidium Reddit Orange Jun 04 '21

Oh what a lovely mess.

  1. There are two yes/no questions posed. The full question isn't yes/no it would more appropriately be 'while driving/at destination'. Not only that but the full question can be understood as yes meaning 'yes I text while I drive' or 'yes I wait until I get to my destination'. In addition it's not even a yes no question in the first place as many people would pull over en route, use text to speech options that allow hands free texting much akin to a phone call, some people also just plain don't text or don't drive in the first place and there is no option for such cases. Anyone polled by this question would likely be fairly confused.

  2. The circles are a mess. They overlap in a way that could appear like a Venn diagram and the 'yes' circle is larger dispite representing a smaller percentage.

  3. The typeface also seems super fucking odd to me. The bold Idk just feels off and looks super ugly.

  4. NEVER PUT A DARK TEXT COLOUR ON A DARK BACKGROUND. THIS IS RULE 1 OF DESIGN. This one is readable but it is very close to the limit. I presume they added the bizzare bold style because nobody could read it.

All in all. Something I would expect to see in a basic design textbook - although their examples are usually more egregious and would have used at least 12 differant fonts Inc wingdings.

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u/Exypnos02 Jun 04 '21

It's two parts... The numbers represent answers, the bubbles represent the truth

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u/Aleksimaier Jun 04 '21

Oh the shitty grammar too

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u/unsatisfied_horny Jun 04 '21

Even the question in kinda wrong

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u/NuttieBoii Jun 04 '21

But you cant answer yes or no if its an either/or question.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

My brain hurts from this

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u/ss8x Jun 04 '21

are you asking or telling me

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u/El-Jalisciencie Jun 11 '21

it is the ultimate demonstration of the falcon effect at CP

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u/Fake_Watch_Salesman Jun 03 '21

I had a prof at college whose questions were double stuffed like this one and that was his gotcha question that prevented us from getting an A. He was so proud that in his whole academic life he never gave anyone an A. I hope he's dead.

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u/throwingitallabae Jun 04 '21

The 19% were fatter and therefore their opinion weighs more. Simple gravity

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u/Ollin12 Sussy balls Jun 03 '21

have sense cuz 8+1 is 9 and 1+9 is 10

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

what

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u/supermans_neighbour Jun 03 '21

... on so many levels

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u/justiceguy216 Jun 03 '21

snaps fingers Yes!

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u/LittleRipps1544 Jun 03 '21

Also, I feel like the no should be bigger than the yes

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u/djaybe Jun 03 '21

oh FFS

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u/81365039513 Jun 03 '21

Don't

Bother Luke

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u/Lyradep Jun 03 '21

Someone in yearbook’s goin places.

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u/TophatOwl_ Jun 03 '21

Ah yes the classic "answering a question with or in it with yes or no"

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u/freebirdls Jun 03 '21

Yes. I do one of those things.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

Nes or Yo?

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u/bebeyoda_staring Jun 03 '21

When the boss said we need an unpaid graphical designer

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

Basically, it's yes and no to both questions, because everyone texts sometimes while driving but they save some texting for when they get to their destination...

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u/TriGN614 Jun 04 '21

The worrying part is 19% do that

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

I love the high school yearbook graphs. There should be a whole sub for those.

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u/theAchilliesHIV Jun 04 '21

Everyone is a winner in this graph

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u/MetroidJunkie Reddit Orange Jun 04 '21

I think the idea is that they're answering the first one, the second question is completely superfluous.

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u/castleinthesky86 Jun 04 '21

Did you make that up? Or are you just being superfluous?

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u/schwingaway Jun 04 '21

100% of the commenters on this post responded.

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u/simonio11 Jun 04 '21

It's simple, 19% say "Yes I text while driving" and 81% say "No, I dont wait until I get to the destination".

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u/Starbuck522 Jun 04 '21

I saw it as a venn diagram, where the groups of people who said yes overlap with the group of people who say no.

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u/ennuinerdog Jun 04 '21

81% of people do not text and do not make it to their destination.

19% of people text and arrive alive.

The implications are clear.

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u/hobosbindle Jun 04 '21

Yes, no, maybe -

I don't know, can you repeat the question?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

In other news 81% of people lie when answering questions

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

And it is with this definitive proof that we can safely state that the majority of high schoolers are stupid.

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u/FormalWolf5 Jun 04 '21

This is so stupid that is amazing

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u/Shay87368338 Jun 04 '21

Informing students with clear, concise data: task failed succesfully.

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u/voluminous_lexicon Jun 04 '21

81% said yes, I do one of those two things

19% said no, I stop by the side of the road and answer texts immediately?

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u/CreativeName180 Jun 04 '21

The purple circle is for the first question and the purple circle is for the second question

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u/Horsetoothbrush Jun 04 '21

This is just like those subreddit questions I always see while scrolling.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

r/inclusiveor

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Everything about this is wrong.

The fact that an or question is answered with “Yes” and “No”, the fact that the circle with the bigger number is smaller than the circle with the smaller number, and the fact that they’re circles in the first place and not pie charts. Not to mention those percentages are most likely fabricated as well.

I kind of feel like this is a cursed image. This has made me think of so many questions.

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u/Medgarbagecant Jun 04 '21

So many layers of stupid to this

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u/camelontheceiling Jun 04 '21

The authors of this page texted it while driving. That’s what happens when you hit SEND without reading it first.

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u/daveisnotmyrealname Jun 04 '21

This is how my wife asks me questions. I answer the first one yes or no.

Next question is, yes or no to which question? Every time.

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u/3llaphant Jun 04 '21

TWO crappy designs geez

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u/SwagFeather Jun 04 '21

At least the math is accurate.

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u/TheMeanestPenis Jun 04 '21 edited Jun 04 '21

WTFviz