{"id":3645,"date":"2010-05-04T08:04:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2010-05-04T08:04:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:04:36","slug":"the-lesson-kids-is-dont-ask-for-colour-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/the-lesson-kids-is-dont-ask-for-colour-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"The lesson, kids, is don’t ask for colour advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

A colour survey gone very wrong<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Thank you so much for all the help on the color survey. Over five million colors were named across 222,500 user sessions. If you never got around to taking it, it\u2019s too late to contribute any data, but if you want you can see how it worked and take it for fun here.<\/p>\n

First, a few basic discoveries:<\/p>\n

* If you ask people to name colors long enough, they go totally crazy.
\n * \u201cPuke\u201d and \u201cvomit\u201d are totally real colors.
\n * Colorblind people are more likely than non-colorblind people to type \u201cfuck this\u201d (or some variant) and quit in frustration.
\n * Indigo was totally just added to the rainbow so it would have 7 colors and make that \u201cROY G. BIV\u201d acronym work, just like you always suspected. It should really be ROY GBP, with maybe a C or T thrown in there between G and B depending on how the spectrum was converted to RGB.
\n * A couple dozen people embedded SQL \u2018drop table\u2019 statements in the color names. Nice try, kids.
\n * Nobody can spell \u201cfuchsia\u201d.<\/p>\n

Overall, the results were really cool and a lot of fun to analyze. There are some basic limitations of this survey, which are discussed toward the bottom of this post. But the sheer amount of data here is cool.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And a selection of miscellaneous answers:<\/p>\n

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A colour survey gone very wrong: Thank you so much for all the help on the color survey. Over five million colors were named across 222,500 user sessions. If you never got around to taking it, it\u2019s too late to contribute any data, but if you want you can see how it worked and take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,73,15],"tags":[102,204,109],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-randomness","category-technology","tag-art","tag-blogging","tag-computers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-WN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3647,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions\/3647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}