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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 53 points 2 months ago (28 children)

Which of the following attributes would you most want your new browser to have, and which would you want least?

Twice as slow as your current browser

Is that a joke?

[–] Liome@pawb.social 48 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Control question probably, to check if you actually read the questions.

[–] mke@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I forgot those exist and interpreted it as "Would you sacrifice performance for one of these features?"

Am I stupid?

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I also thought it was a feature vs performance question. How can it be used as a control question?

[–] mke@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

By overestimating users' intelligence... classic blunder, really. 🧐

I jest, I've no idea.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Mozilla might be insane

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

That's how I treated it too. I took it at face value.

I have modern hardware so I don't care too much about browser performance. All browsers perform well on my hardware. Obviously some are more lightweight and optimised, but I have no doubts about my ability to comfortably browse the web on my hardware, so all the performance questions I tended to rank in the middle (ie not most or least important) as I don't tend to notice browser performance.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Makes sense. What about those who click that option as a joke? Maybe discount all other replies from that person because of that too?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago
[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago

Or what if they don't click it by joke, but because they actually prefer a 2x slower browser over such a feature?

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lol, yeah. 👍

I was doing a political poll just the other day and the third or fourth question was a color question like: “Which of the following is associated most with a ripe banana?”

Eh, how ripe are we talking?

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 1 points 2 months ago

I debated because I really disliked another option in there (I think it was split-screen for AI or something stupid) and it felt like it was designed to make me not rank something else I didn't like as least desired.

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