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It's true: One in nine Americans think that HTML is a disease. Not just any disease: A STD.
Americans Think HTML Is An STD According to New Study | Time[^]
Also:
23% thought an “MP3” was a “Star Wars” robot.
18% identified “Blu-ray” as a marine animal.
15% said they believed “software” is comfortable clothing.
12% said “USB” is the acronym for a European country.
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They're not so very wrong, given the amount of JavaScript-libraries that are usually referenced.
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Yes, the number of libraries I have seen needed by someone else to get a web page running is becoming ridiculous.
The most recent addition I have seen is the necessity to have a javascript library to help render the pages more quickly.
It makes me think of the equivalent in prescribing medicine where a number of drugs are prescribed purely to counter side effects of the original drug, some of the drugs being used purely to counteract other drugs that are being used to counteract side effects of other drugs.
Years back, using third party libraries was considered a big risk due to security concerns - given the abandon with which libraries are used nowadays I wonder who is asserting the security of these libraries.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 20-Jan-18 12:07pm.
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Isn't that effectively saying, "One in nine Americans is pretty dumb"?
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I wouldn't use the word "dumb". Clueless maybe. 
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I'd say one in nine anywhere is pretty dumb.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Isn't that effectively saying, "One in nine Americans is pretty dumb"?
Only one in 9? I would have thought it was higher.
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You may think that; I couldn't possibly comment.
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Cornelius Henning wrote:
Americans Think HTML Is An STD
Well, with Tinder ...
Quote: an “MP3” was a “Star Wars” robot.
MP3CPO!
Quote: identified “Blu-ray” as a marine animal
CodProject, anyone?
Cornelius Henning wrote: “software” is comfortable clothing
And hardware is what knights wore.
Quote: “USB” is the acronym for a European country.
United States Of Belgium.
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OriginalGriff wrote: United States Of Belgium.
That's actually not that far off the truth.
Given that there is Wallonia / flanders / brussels.
Only the united might be a bit much tho... 
Tom
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And how many could listen to oa conversation between say 2 doctors, or 2 structural engineers and understand all of their acronyms? Could you? Do you know every acronym used by banks in their dealing room?
You're an IT person, of course you know what those terms are. Way less than 1 in 9 Americans are IT people so they are actually doing quite well if only 1 in 9 get it wrong.
Sigh, I guess it's not fake news, no it's worse, it's even more pointless.
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I did post it with a joke icon, you know.
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What? I thought this was supposed to be a serious discussion. 
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Lopatir wrote: And how many could listen to oa conversation between say 2 doctors, or 2 structural engineers and understand all of their acronyms? Could you? Do you know every acronym used by banks in their dealing room?
I wonder if some programmers go to the hardware store to look for a 'left' angle bracket when they need to fix a shelf?
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Let them have their fun. It's always cute when foreigners try to make fun of the US. It shows their jealousy. If they polled other countries, it would likely be even lower.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Hahaha!
Love these polls, they always find the stupidest of people to ask.
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Unless you do a side comparison with another country that makes us look better, you are just proving to the world that Yanks are retarded, as originally assumed. 
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This posting also proves that we can still laugh at ourselves - very necessary in the crazy world we inhabit today.
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I'd pick Canada. The public schools there are as bad as ours. 
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All bullsh<nobr>it<nobr>[^].
I know everyone here on CP finds it fashionable and fun to insult Americans, but citing 3 year-old fraudulent surveys made by garbage companies from the U.K.?
C'mon, you can be more inventive than that.
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Don't care.
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It's an American that posted it.
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