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Okay, okay, you can call me nosy, but I love knowing what other people think about things.

This is why I gravitate towards surveys.

You know, the kinds of stories where ordinary people are asked for their opinions on and reactions

to the most random things.

And for me, the weirder, the better.

For example, back in 2014, there was a poll in the UK that asked the question, would you

have sex with a robot, if given a chance?

When the numbers came back? Oh, wow, okay. I wasn't expecting that, but it's rather annoying.

Anyway, one in five people said that they would get jiggie with a robot. One in five.

And as an addendum to that, almost 50% said that they wouldn't think negatively of someone who did.

Like I said, that survey was way back in 2014.

And you've got to wonder if attitudes have changed since then.

Here's another.

2,400 Americans were asked if HTML was a sexually transmitted disease.

Tallying the responses, we learned that,

you know you don't have to do that, right?

I can handle it from here.

Anyway, the answer is that 11% of Americans thought that HTML was a venereal disease.

11%.

It also found that 42% believe that a motherboard is a deck on a cruise ship.

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