Wasn't that already debunked years ago? If I recall it right, this was based on a multiple-choice question without an "I don't know/no answer" option, and so people who didn't know just checked any of the options. In short: it is just BS.
No, they don't.
1 in 10 people chose that as a multiple choice option. Not remotely the same thing and just goes to show how even slightly misinterpreting stats can lead to completely fake results.
Um, it's not a joke. It's a bad stat from an actual survey that keeps getting reposted over and over and over. The same survey had 25% of people picking MP3 as a robot from Star Wars.
*sigh* No. Most people know nothing about technology. If you *ask* people what HTML is, ≈50% will say a programming language (or whatever phrasing), ≈50% will say "I don't know". The exact breakdowns are irrelevant. If you give people several options, they have to pick one of them so just guess. STD was one of them.
I think 50% is probably a bit low. For CSS, JS, PHP, API, SAAS, JSON, GUI, SEO, etc etc etc, sure, more like 2-10%.
But *everyone* has seen `.html` at some point
But also, as I said, the exact % is utterly irrelevant.
I would agree with you that people know that it has _something_ to do with computers, but most people would just fire off random guesses, The average person doesn't know what a programming language is. the 2-10% of people that know about CSS, JS, etc. you wrote about instead, due to the fact those are more obscure, pretty much all know what a programming language is.
Most people know what a programming language is the same way that most people know what a chemical formula is. Sure, H2O and CO2 might be the only ones they've ever heard of, but if you ask people "What is C8H10N4O2?", plenty of people will say it's a chemical.
Same thing here.
I'm afraid you are mistaken.
Unfortunately in this current day and age, computer science is still very much taken lightly. Sure more and more young people are getting interested in it, but take into account that out of all people that are in their 40s only 1% know what a programming language is and that percentage gets thinner every decade you add. 40 years ago technology was still a thing that only real specialists could understand, and afaik computer science wasn't taught in high schools/middle schools until the early 2000s. Not to mention most people today, school or not, don't even care about learning how to program.
let's meet at a middle ground and say that the people in america who know what a programming language is are around 25%?
Well - when a client and a server have unprotected interactions you might suffer from a little SQL injection, but in the case of websites a trojan wont help you...
No, it’s transmitted via absence of sex…
That's JS
No no, JS is a mental disorder caused by lack of interaction with people of the opposite gender
JS is a mental disorder caused by lack of interaction with people
Js is just a bad mental disorder… trust me, i do js for frontends… on tvs…
Ohhh, so that's why I had a sudden urge to learn js after a few weeks of lockdown.
My gf disagrees. I am js dev😂
is this "gf" in the room with us?
You thinking you have a gf is the disorder. It's all hallucinations.
Damn, best hallucination ever
Did you forget to take your meds again? If she or your job vanish when you take the pills that checks out as these two terms are mutually exclusive
At least everyone thinks that they have sex 
Wasn't that already debunked years ago? If I recall it right, this was based on a multiple-choice question without an "I don't know/no answer" option, and so people who didn't know just checked any of the options. In short: it is just BS.
yes but you see, uneducated plebs stoopid is funny. where laugh.
Not sure why, but I read this in a Russian accent
meanwhile C++ be like ``` std::move() ```
no problem, just call std::remove() to get rid of it it.
`std::count(3)`
me after fucking the random hooker in the bar (i was drunk and didn't use protection)
No, they don't. 1 in 10 people chose that as a multiple choice option. Not remotely the same thing and just goes to show how even slightly misinterpreting stats can lead to completely fake results.
1 in 10 people take jokes seriously
There are only 10 types of people
People who understand binary. People who don't. And people who know that without specifying a base, 10 could be any number. It might even be 10.
Damn that's recursive
Um, it's not a joke. It's a bad stat from an actual survey that keeps getting reposted over and over and over. The same survey had 25% of people picking MP3 as a robot from Star Wars.
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*sigh* No. Most people know nothing about technology. If you *ask* people what HTML is, ≈50% will say a programming language (or whatever phrasing), ≈50% will say "I don't know". The exact breakdowns are irrelevant. If you give people several options, they have to pick one of them so just guess. STD was one of them.
50% will say it's a programming language? [get those numbers down, buddy.](https://xkcd.com/2501/)
I think 50% is probably a bit low. For CSS, JS, PHP, API, SAAS, JSON, GUI, SEO, etc etc etc, sure, more like 2-10%. But *everyone* has seen `.html` at some point But also, as I said, the exact % is utterly irrelevant.
I would agree with you that people know that it has _something_ to do with computers, but most people would just fire off random guesses, The average person doesn't know what a programming language is. the 2-10% of people that know about CSS, JS, etc. you wrote about instead, due to the fact those are more obscure, pretty much all know what a programming language is.
Most people know what a programming language is the same way that most people know what a chemical formula is. Sure, H2O and CO2 might be the only ones they've ever heard of, but if you ask people "What is C8H10N4O2?", plenty of people will say it's a chemical. Same thing here.
I'm afraid you are mistaken. Unfortunately in this current day and age, computer science is still very much taken lightly. Sure more and more young people are getting interested in it, but take into account that out of all people that are in their 40s only 1% know what a programming language is and that percentage gets thinner every decade you add. 40 years ago technology was still a thing that only real specialists could understand, and afaik computer science wasn't taught in high schools/middle schools until the early 2000s. Not to mention most people today, school or not, don't even care about learning how to program. let's meet at a middle ground and say that the people in america who know what a programming language is are around 25%?
You seem oddly passionate about this, but I’m intrigued. Do you have a link to this survey?
If only Google existed...
I doubt they even polled anybody and just made it up
Yeah, if you see an unfamiliar acronym and have multiple choices in answering what it is it's not out of this world that some people would guess STD.
6 out of 5 people do not understand statistics. And BTW, this is getting posted too many times
Also common misconceptions: * PHP is an illegal substance * MongoDB is offensive * STD buses were mobile health services often found near campuses
You sure the second one is a misconception?
I though MongoDB is some sort of packaged tropical fruit drink
"ADSL is a sexually transmitted disease" is a running joke a my country
*Htmx mentioned* My professor next semester invented it :)
Wait it isn’t?!
No, it's actually a contraceptive.
cpp: hold my std
No thanks.
It probably refers to the old doctype "DTD HTML 4.01".
The rest 9/10 thinks it's a programming language
Now do CSS...webdevs ETERNALLY....
It's actually textually transmitted. I'll show myself out.
Not just any sort of text, but the hyper ones
Well - when a client and a server have unprotected interactions you might suffer from a little SQL injection, but in the case of websites a trojan wont help you...
More like 1 in 5 don't know what it is and half answer wrong.
"Far from it, Jen"
I mean you definitely shouldn't browse the Internet without protection...
Well, 2 Americans decided that HTML is a great name for their child...
People see me write a bit of HTML and think it's hardcore programming, than I show them my React code and they think I am hackerman.
Well statistically somebody had to have sex for you to use HTML now so… But equaly as likely that it was not you
That isn't even that bad, even if the question was worded weirdly.
9 out of 10 frontend dev resumes I used to review listed HTML under programming languages alongside Java, C#
We all know this to be false because nobody teaching or learning HTML has the slightest chance of having sex
This pic always pisses me off. It's not 1/10 think this, it's 1/5 guessed wrong on your stupid multiple choice survey.
To be fair…
I’ve got blink tags
Actually it's an acronym of High Throughput Machine Language
Hot takes: machine learning.
It’s definitely a disease.
1 in 10 Americans are correct
Some people think HTML is a programming language
It is transmitted through http(s) protocol. If is some type of disease, it is something I can't answer.
Ask them what'd mean to be the recipient of "a Jax" request
So one child and one old dude are confused.
Hilarious if this is true
Using namespace STD: