Poll: cultural differences

[pne]

D'oh! I messed up on the "number of days in a month". Please ignore that question and use this poll instead. (You'll probably have to use your "Back" button afterwards to get back to this entry, since the extra poll will take you to a dummy entry after submission.)

Poll #3382 Days in a month

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 17

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What's the maximum number of days in a month?

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Mean: 30.24 Median: 31 Std. Dev 2.82

16		0 (0.0%)
17		0 (0.0%)
18		0 (0.0%)
19		1 (5.9%)
20		0 (0.0%)
21		0 (0.0%)
22		0 (0.0%)
23		0 (0.0%)
24		0 (0.0%)
25		0 (0.0%)
26		0 (0.0%)
27		0 (0.0%)
28		0 (0.0%)
29		0 (0.0%)
30		1 (5.9%)
31		15 (88.2%)
32		0 (0.0%)
33		0 (0.0%)
34		0 (0.0%)
35		0 (0.0%)

Poll #3381 cultural differences

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

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How many planets are there in our solar system?

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Mean: 8.47 Median: 8 Std. Dev 0.72

3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		0 (0.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		10 (66.7%)
9		3 (20.0%)
10		2 (13.3%)
11		0 (0.0%)
12		0 (0.0%)
13		0 (0.0%)
14		0 (0.0%)
15		0 (0.0%)
16		0 (0.0%)
17		0 (0.0%)
18		0 (0.0%)
19		0 (0.0%)
20		0 (0.0%)
21		0 (0.0%)
22		0 (0.0%)

How many continents are there?

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Mean: 6.47 Median: 7 Std. Dev 0.72

1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		2 (13.3%)
6		4 (26.7%)
7		9 (60.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
10		0 (0.0%)
11		0 (0.0%)
12		0 (0.0%)
13		0 (0.0%)
14		0 (0.0%)
15		0 (0.0%)
16		0 (0.0%)

How many colours are there in the rainbow?

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Mean: 6.40 Median: 7 Std. Dev 0.88

1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (6.7%)
5		1 (6.7%)
6		4 (26.7%)
7		9 (60.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
10		0 (0.0%)
11		0 (0.0%)
12		0 (0.0%)
13		0 (0.0%)
14		0 (0.0%)
15		0 (0.0%)
16		0 (0.0%)

How many letters are there in the alphabet?

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Mean: 26.73 Median: 26 Std. Dev 1.95

20		0 (0.0%)
21		0 (0.0%)
22		0 (0.0%)
23		0 (0.0%)
24		0 (0.0%)
25		0 (0.0%)
26		13 (86.7%)
27		0 (0.0%)
28		0 (0.0%)
29		0 (0.0%)
30		1 (6.7%)
31		0 (0.0%)
32		0 (0.0%)
33		1 (6.7%)
34		0 (0.0%)
35		0 (0.0%)
36		0 (0.0%)
37		0 (0.0%)
38		0 (0.0%)
39		0 (0.0%)

How many months can there be in a year, at most?

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Mean: 12.53 Median: 12 Std. Dev 1.75

10		0 (0.0%)
11		0 (0.0%)
12		13 (86.7%)
13		1 (6.7%)
14		0 (0.0%)
15		0 (0.0%)
16		0 (0.0%)
17		0 (0.0%)
18		0 (0.0%)
19		1 (6.7%)
20		0 (0.0%)

How many days can there be in a month, at most?

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Mean: 19.00 Median: 19 Std. Dev 0.00

10		0 (0.0%)
11		0 (0.0%)
12		0 (0.0%)
13		0 (0.0%)
14		0 (0.0%)
15		0 (0.0%)
16		0 (0.0%)
17		0 (0.0%)
18		0 (0.0%)
19		2 (100.0%)
20		0 (0.0%)

How many days can there be in a week, at most?

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Mean: 7.20 Median: 7 Std. Dev 0.75

5		0 (0.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		14 (93.3%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
10		1 (6.7%)
11		0 (0.0%)
12		0 (0.0%)
13		0 (0.0%)
14		0 (0.0%)
15		0 (0.0%)
16		0 (0.0%)
17		0 (0.0%)
18		0 (0.0%)
19		0 (0.0%)
20		0 (0.0%)

What's the qibla direction for you? ([Initial] bearing from you to the Kaaba in Mecca) - http://eqibla.com/ may be useful, but convert to degrees from north (e.g. "10 degrees from west towards south" = 260°)

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Mean: 100.80 Median: 126 Std. Dev 43.50

0		0 (0.0%)
18		2 (20.0%)
36		0 (0.0%)
54		0 (0.0%)
72		0 (0.0%)
90		1 (10.0%)
108		1 (10.0%)
126		5 (50.0%)
144		1 (10.0%)
162		0 (0.0%)
180		0 (0.0%)
198		0 (0.0%)
216		0 (0.0%)
234		0 (0.0%)
252		0 (0.0%)
270		0 (0.0%)
288		0 (0.0%)
306		0 (0.0%)
324		0 (0.0%)
342		0 (0.0%)

Exact qibla direction:

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What's the qiblih direction for you? ([Initial] bearing from you to the shrine of Bahá'u'lláh near Akká) - http://qiblih.com/ may be useful, but convert to degrees from north (e.g. "10 degrees from west towards south" = 260°)

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Mean: 97.20 Median: 108 Std. Dev 40.41

0		0 (0.0%)
18		2 (20.0%)
36		0 (0.0%)
54		0 (0.0%)
72		0 (0.0%)
90		0 (0.0%)
108		4 (40.0%)
126		4 (40.0%)
144		0 (0.0%)
162		0 (0.0%)
180		0 (0.0%)
198		0 (0.0%)
216		0 (0.0%)
234		0 (0.0%)
252		0 (0.0%)
270		0 (0.0%)
288		0 (0.0%)
306		0 (0.0%)
324		0 (0.0%)
342		0 (0.0%)

Exact qiblih direction:

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Two Sesame Street characters that share a room:

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Bert and Ernie
8 (57.1%)

Ernie and Bert
6 (42.9%)

Bert and Ernie... no, Ernie and Bert... no... wait, now you've made me unsure!
0 (0.0%)

I have no idea what you're talking about.
0 (0.0%)

To tell exact time (for example, to say what time a train leaves), I use...

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a 12-hour clock (am/pm)
4 (26.7%)

a 24-hour clock
11 (73.3%)

a 10-hour clock
0 (0.0%)

some other time format
0 (0.0%)

To tell approximate time (of the "quarter to ten" kind rather than "9:45" kind), I use...

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a 12-hour clock
14 (93.3%)

a 24-hour clock
1 (6.7%)

a 10-hour clock
0 (0.0%)

some other time format
0 (0.0%)

Fuel consumption is obviously in

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volume per distance (l/100 km, ...)
7 (53.8%)

distance per volume (mpg, ...)
6 (46.2%)

some other measure which I'll mention in comments
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[liv]

Those prayer direction finding Google maps things are ever so cute!

[pne]

I like the little kneeling person in them! Especially the fact that they change direction depending on whether they have to face east or west.

And I was kind of hoping you would answer what you did for months of the year :)

I hope Pthalo takes the poll, too!

[pthalo]

you didn't have an option for 44 letters in the alphabet, so I just averaged them (26+44+30+31)/4

thanks for pointing me to the poll, my reading of my friends page is a bit sporadic these days.

[pthalo]

also, it's interesting the results about 24 vs 12 hour clocks. i hadn't thought about it, but you just don't say "három negyed tizennyolc múlt öt perccel" (even though that is a precise time: 3/4 18 has passed with 5 minutes: 17:50), it is either "tizenhét óra ötven perckor" (seventeen hours fifty minutes o'clock) or "három negyed hat múlt öt perccel" (3/4 6 passed 5 minutes).

42 vs 12 hour clocks

[pne]

Yes! That was why I made it into two questions.

Because it's the same here: even though the 24-hour clock is common, it's only used for precise things when you read "hours:minutes", but not for "minutes past/before hour".

To use your example: "siebzehn Uhr fünfzig" is fine, as is "zehn vor sechs" - but not "zehn vor achtzehn". (German simply does "ten before six", not "five after quarter past". Though for 17:35, we'd have "fünf nach halb sechs" = "five (minutes) after half (of) six".)

Re: 42 vs 12 hour clocks

[pthalo]

interesting :) i wonder if Hungarian started using this way of telling time when we were part of the Hapsburg empire.

i've lost my german, but i seem to have retained my numbers well enough to understand before reading the translation, yay. though i do thank you for the translation too :)

[pne]

I wasn't sure what the range for that question should have been...

Which numbers correspond to which language? 26, presumably, is English, but which are 44/30/31? I presume Hungarian, Serbian, Macedonian, in some combination, but which way?

[pthalo]

In that order :)

Hungarian, 44: a á b c cs d dz dzs e é f g gy h i í j k l ly m n ny o ó ö ő p q r s sz t ty u ú ü ű v w x y z zs -- though q, w, x, and y by itself aren't used except in some foreign words or in the case of y in some older spellings, so Hungary has either 40 or 44 letters, depending on how you count it.

Serbian and Macedonian have the same letters, but Macedonian has an additional letter ѕ (pronounced "dz"), also, Macedonian pronounces a couple letters differently so they write them differently as well, ќ = ћ and ѓ = ђ =macedonian letter first, serbian second). ќ is pronounced kind of like kj the "c" in "cute", and ѓ is like gj, the voiced equivalent.

[pne]

thanks for pointing me to the poll, my reading of my friends page is a bit sporadic these days.

Thank you for responding. And I had assumed that might be the case, so thank you also for accepting the invitation.

[janinedog]

I changed my vote on the number of continents because I totally forgot to count Australia when I was counting them in my head the first time. :x