I understand the need for the first “Other” option.
But not the second.
No wonder they need people to specify.
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rENNISance woman by Cath Ennis
Matt Brown said: "You can blog about whatever you wish, as long as it is related to science and research". His wish is my command! Here are some snippets from my life as a cancer research grant wrangler in Vancouver. Mostly the silly bits.
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Please define "other"
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- Tuesday, 02 Jun e 2009 - 19:10 UTC
Last updated: Tuesday, 02 Jun 2009 - 19:10 UTC
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I would seriously like to see some of the ‘other’ responses.
I almost ticked that option and put “what do you expect people to say here?” in the box, but there’s an excellent and valuable prize at stake ;)
And they even have non-overlapping age groups! I’ve had to fill out forms where it went “25-30” and then “30-35”.
Ha! That’s excellent. I’d tick the younger age group every time.
I guess you could type something like 0×28. Or in Cath’s case, 0×19.
Isn’t “Other” for the “have been 23 for N years” age group? You’ll be a member in a few years, Cath.
Or you could put you age in binary in the “other” box…
(calculates)
OMG, I’m 11111 !!!!!
Bob, I’m horribly offended.
Richard, I might be horribly offended, if I knew what the hell you were talking about!
Anyway, as I’ve said before, I’m really only 25. Oh, sorry, that’s 2 5.
The square root of 40-something.
LOL@Eva
Maybe the box is for immortals.
gah you guys are too fast for me.
age divided by zero?
Hex, Cath. Get with the cool kids.
I still don’t get it… this site tells me that 0×28 = (, while 0×19 = EM.
I still don’t know if I am insulted or not, please help ;)
You’re not insulted. They’re numbers, not character codes.
I’ll take your word for it ;)
You could go along Fermatian lines, and tell people you know how to prove your age, but there simply isn’t enough space here to show it.
The option is clearly to allow omnipotent, timeless beings to enter the competition. We mustn’t discriminate against gods and demiurges.
‘Other’ response:
“Dear Sir or Madam: I guess I should check ‘60 or over’, but, being 99 years old and still going strong, I am horribly offended that you would differentiate between 20 and 60 in 10-year groups but lump me in with the 70-something kids.”
Do you guys want the URL so you can play?
finally
Here ya go
p.s. Steffi, I doubt there were many 99 year olds biking to work ;)
I thought the second “other” was for “noneofyourfreakinbusinesshowoldIam”, or a similar response.
If so, they should have just made it an optional question!
My problem is that in the age-range question they don’t specify the units. Furlongs? Groats? Scovilles? Electronvolts? Nimbies? Magoolians? Brazillions? This is as dreadful as showing a picture of a specimen or geological section without a measurement stick.
By the way, I now weigh 3937.499 ounces (troy).
Well, it’s a bicycle commuting survey, so they probably mean near-misses of the “another few inches and I’d have been in hospital if I was lucky” kind. I think I probably still ticked the right box if you include all my years (11) of bicycle commuting, rather than just the Vancouver years (7).