It's Poll Week, Apparently

[thefourthvine]

My nine-year-old nephew has to do a ridiculous poll for his math class, and he needs lots of responses. It's one question. Anyone feel like taking it? Please? I would thank you! My sister would thank you! My nephew would also thank you!

(Added bonus humor for anyone who has ever taken a math class: his teacher assigned this question, and also assigned him to determine the mean, mode, and median of answers. If you take it, you'll see why we are all deeply amused by this. Statistics: UR TEACHIN IT RONG.)

ETA: SurveyMonkey broke! The question was as follows:

[Poll #1354750]

Feel free to take it if you haven't already, and thanks again!

Comments

[lyndseas.livejournal.com]

Sadly, you can't even do that, because it's nominal data: because it isn't numbers, you can't order it (well, I guess you could do it in spectrum order, but that isn't technically correct), and thus there is no median.

[norah.livejournal.com]

Right, I was just trying to find SOME way to get a median - if I posit that the teacher had value-ordered them in the original assignment, that would be a way of ordering them that might work - though I like your spectrum idea better. It was mostly faecetious - obviously, the teacher was WRONG, not trying for some esoteric quantification of color values.