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Comment author: fubarobfusco 05 November 2013 06:18:14PM *  12 points [-]

Suggested new questions:

About how many hours of television have you watched in the past week? "Television" here means commercially-produced programs that are broadcast on some TV channel; regardless of how you personally access them.

Do you live with pets? Pets are nonhuman animals that live in or around your residence, are not livestock or wild animals, and that you or someone you live with takes care of.

  • Do you live with cats?
  • ... dogs?
  • ... other mammals?
  • ... other vertebrates (birds, reptiles, fish)?
  • ... invertebrates (ant farm, tarantulas, sea-monkeys, snails, etc.)?

Have you ever donated blood?

  • Yes.
  • No; I am not allowed to donate blood in my country.
  • No; I am not sure if I am allowed to donate blood.
  • No; I am allowed to donate blood, but I haven't.

Think about the meals you have eaten in the past week. Whom did you eat with most often? (This is a plurality, not a majority.)

  • I ate alone.
  • I ate with people I live with (family, domestic partners, housemates).
  • I ate with people I work with but don't live with (coworkers, colleagues, fellow students).
  • I ate with other people not listed above.
Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 06 November 2013 09:33:54AM *  5 points [-]

"Television" here means commercially-produced programs that are broadcast on some TV channel; regardless of how you personally access them.

"Commercially-produced" would seem to exclude e.g. documentaries produced by state-funded broadcasting corporations or with other non-profit funding, and "are broadcast" is vague about whether it includes "have once been broadcast" (does rewatching recorded TV shows count?), and what counts as a TV channel (is Netflix one?). "TV series and movies" or just "anything in a video format" might be better - I'm not sure whether we can really make a meaningful distinction between watching TV and watching non-TV videos anymore.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 06 November 2013 09:38:41AM 3 points [-]

You're right about public broadcasting. But I wanted to exclude Internet cat videos. Possibly "professionally-produced" is what I should have said.

Comment author: DanArmak 05 November 2013 09:35:07PM *  2 points [-]

Do you live with [...] invertebrates?

I have lots of invertebrates coming in from the garden through the window. Ants have taken up permanent residence; I have not yet convinced them to move their colony into a farm. Does that count?

Comment author: Vaniver 05 November 2013 10:26:07PM 2 points [-]

Do you count yourself as "taking care of" them?

Comment author: DanArmak 05 November 2013 10:28:01PM 3 points [-]

It's not a deliberate goal of mine, but my actions do provide them with food and shelter, and I don't act against them where other people might.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 November 2013 09:53:29AM 0 points [-]

"Television" here means commercially-produced programs that are broadcast on some TV channel; regardless of how you personally access them.

So watching a film does or does not count as television depending on whether or not the film has ever been broadcast on TV? (Where I live, or anywhere in the world?)

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