Could you please take two minutes to help my son, Mitchell with his homework?
Update: The poll is now closed. Thanks to all!
Mitchell has an elementary statistics project: poll a number of people on a set question and write up the results. Some children would just grab paper and pencil and start running around the neighbourhood. But, being the introvert he is,1 Mitchell finds that kind of thing hard. Another solution might be to ask people at Church on Sunday, but that Just Won't Work for Reasons That Shall Become Clear.
However, at 9 years old, Mitchell is completely in touch with his inner-geek and hatched a cunning plan: get Dad to put the poll on his website. He cleared it with the teacher, and then asked me very, very nicely. So here it is:
Please answer in a comment - single letter and short write-in responses are fine. The fact that you reply is more important than the accuracy of your answer :).
Mitchell sends many thanks in advance.
1Wonder where he got that trait?
Comments
E
E
E, although I do believe in some sort of non-temporal creative force in the construction of our incredible universe.
More A than E - if that's useful :)
E
D
A, though I wonder why his school is getting into this topic.
E
E but the philosophy of C interests me. Indeed some would argue that C is a philosophy rather than a religion.
A
A
A
E and hate A
A
E
I, too, find aspects of C quite interesting.
E
E.
(My mothers a C, and there's a lot less to it than you'd imagine. ;-)
Bit late now, I know, but it might have been interesting to seperate out the agnostics; it seems to me that they might vote D *or* E.
Any road up; good luck, Mitchell!
E, and you should give Mitchell a lecture about the accuracy of any survey based around self-reporting. :)
I think that the reason a lot of the people answering 'E' find Buddhism interesting is that if you read Buddha the right way (i.e. ignore all the bits about reincarnation), it's a way to embrace spirituality without mysticism.
A
E with leanings towards C
A
A
I'm curious, though, why Debian, Beos, BSD, Macintosh, Amiga, and Windows are not included in the list?
E
For extra credit, ask Mitchell to think of some ways in which the present forum is also likely biased, if not as badly as Sunday Church.
E
Though I did have a short period of ~A.
A
A
A
A
vi!
A
I was going to add vi and emacs to Mickey's post... but Charles beat me to it :)
D. I'm happy to help Mitchell anytime.
A. Jesus is the Lord
E
E
E with leanings towards C
D - nothing definitive - possibly a free thinker