Comments on: How to use the General Social Survey http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/08/how-to-use-the-general-social-survey/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: abb3w http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/08/how-to-use-the-general-social-survey/#comment-35332 abb3w Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:39:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=13422#comment-35332 I'm not convinced looks are the real obstacle. I periodically plug the SDA interface on Fark as a neat toy, and it often gets favorable response from those who first encounter it, even if it isn't as lickable as the GUI of OS X. I suspect it's more a problem of getting the word out. It would seem like there ought to be uses in high-school social studies. Perhaps trying to talk with some teaching associations? I’m not convinced looks are the real obstacle. I periodically plug the SDA interface on Fark as a neat toy, and it often gets favorable response from those who first encounter it, even if it isn’t as lickable as the GUI of OS X.

I suspect it’s more a problem of getting the word out. It would seem like there ought to be uses in high-school social studies. Perhaps trying to talk with some teaching associations?

]]> By: Darkseid http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/08/how-to-use-the-general-social-survey/#comment-35331 Darkseid Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:22:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=13422#comment-35331 forgive me for saying this, but i think the GSS could be an amazingly popular tool if they'd just make it look cooler. i can definitely imagine people searching it like they use google to get dirt on groups of people but, like you said, it reminds me of 1997. people are tremendously interested in the studies the OkCupid and Match do, for example, because it's presented with pretty graphs, etc. i think regular people would participate as well if they'd make the result look like that. upload a single controversial graph on imgur/reddit and it'll get hundreds of thousands of hits....just sayin' forgive me for saying this, but i think the GSS could be an amazingly popular tool if they’d just make it look cooler. i can definitely imagine people searching it like they use google to get dirt on groups of people but, like you said, it reminds me of 1997. people are tremendously interested in the studies the OkCupid and Match do, for example, because it’s presented with pretty graphs, etc. i think regular people would participate as well if they’d make the result look like that. upload a single controversial graph on imgur/reddit and it’ll get hundreds of thousands of hits….just sayin’

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