• Liome@pawb.social
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    3 months ago

    Control question probably, to check if you actually read the questions.

    • mke@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I forgot those exist and interpreted it as “Would you sacrifice performance for one of these features?”

      Am I stupid?

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        3 months ago

        I also thought it was a feature vs performance question. How can it be used as a control question?

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        3 months ago

        That’s how I treated it too. I took it at face value.

        I have modern hardware so I don’t care too much about browser performance. All browsers perform well on my hardware. Obviously some are more lightweight and optimised, but I have no doubts about my ability to comfortably browse the web on my hardware, so all the performance questions I tended to rank in the middle (ie not most or least important) as I don’t tend to notice browser performance.

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      3 months ago

      Makes sense. What about those who click that option as a joke? Maybe discount all other replies from that person because of that too?

    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
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      3 months ago

      lol, yeah. 👍

      I was doing a political poll just the other day and the third or fourth question was a color question like: “Which of the following is associated most with a ripe banana?”

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      3 months ago

      I debated because I really disliked another option in there (I think it was split-screen for AI or something stupid) and it felt like it was designed to make me not rank something else I didn’t like as least desired.