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.
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
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I mean, how serious are these surveys? I can see myself answering HTML is an STD as a joke.
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.
Soft-wear…
Here’s the original
https://www.science.org/content/article/one-10-americans-thinks-html-sexually-transmitted-disease
So probably not that serious
I don’t know, given the type of people who frequent “coupon websites,” I wouldn’t be that surprised if they were answering seriously.
Probably a lot of people clicking whatever just to get their coupons.
And JS is the cure. Obviously.
Take two php and call me in the morning
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.
It’s amazing how one pain can diminish another
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
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.
It was a 3 option multiple choice according to the original article
“What is HTML?”