Thanks to all who left an answer for Mitchell’s survey. It turns out this was not so much a maths assignment, as one for a subject called “Human Society and its Environment.”
We had a good discussion about the answers and the write-in comments as we tallied the results and drew the graph. Amongst other things, we talked about why so many people in this sample might be answering ‘E’ and ‘A’, rather than any of the other options (thanks, Laurent), why self-reporting and self-selecting samples are biased (thanks, Charles) why somebody might use the word ‘hate’ in their answer (thanks, “no two”) and why Windows might be considered a religion (thanks, Mickey).
Unfortunately, “leanings toward” Buddism went straight over Mitchell’s head—he’s maybe a year or two away from that level of abstract thought—but I find it interesting, so thankyou for sharing.
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