Color Name Survey

Randall Munroe of xkcd conducted an online color survey, the results from 222,500 user sessions are ready. The aim of the survey was to find what names people associate with colors. As you can see, no one knows how to spell fuchsia. I had to stop and roll in the floor at the "disproportionally popular" color names by gender section. Link -via reddit

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When the survey was first posted I spent about a half hour taking it. So that should give you a hint of the quality of people taking this thing.

Anyway I realized I have the ability to differentiate colours, but not name them.

I only have about 15 colour names in my head and I use the suffix 'ish' and often compare mixes a lot.
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Poor Leonhard Fuchs! Everyone always misspells the plant genus named after him. Just remember:
It's Fuchsia for Fuchs!

He was a 16th c. German botanist and physician "whose botanical work Historia Stirpium (1542) is a landmark in the development of natural history because of its organized presentation, the accuracy of its drawings and descriptions of plants, and its glossary."
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/221300/Leonhard-Fuchs
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much of this info is incorrect. i worked at the Welfare Dept for years so i have some insight. in calif. you are allowed to have $2,000.00 in combined property. houses and much of a vehicles value are not counted. lots of people would like to save for retirement - but i don't believe that it's the government/taxpayers duty to support them while they sock away money. we stopped counted the value of life insurance years ago. as for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) it's not that much of a loss. they say that the tax credit given for retirement savings is wiped away if you qualify for the EITC. not a big deal when those who qualify for the EITC get almost everything they paid in taxes back in their refund. not only that, there are trained people located at the Welfare Office to file their taxes for them to make sure they get every last cent. finally - in my 11 years determining eligibility to Cash Assistance and Food Stamps - not once, ever, did anybody ever have a retirement account that disqualified them from assistance.
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Thank you, Jodie. I am an Enrolled Agent/Tax Pro and you stated most all of what I was going to say. In addition, If any single or couple making less than $50K a year contributes to a retirement account, they get a 10% credit, up to $200 a year.
The National Center for Policy Analysis is not a "conservative think tank".
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At $15,000 a year, a single mother would be best served to invest in some type of personal property (e.g. house or condo) instead of retirement. That way she'll build equity that she can roll into a larger home, or retirement way down the line. At that income level, saving for retirement on top of rent/living expenses just isn't practical or advisable.
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NCPA is most definitely a conservative think tank, and it's also an industry front group, well established and fairly well know in Washington.

Its funders -- P&G, ExxonMobil, Scaife, Lilly -- are its message. Its board and staff are not only a who's who of the GOP, but of other conservative think tanks and front groups as well -- Hudson, Hoover, Heartland, etc.

A couple of minutes of googling comes up with enough evidence to convince anyone who could be convinced with evidence.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Policy_Analysis
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David: and your point is?
Or is it just assumed in your post that conservatives and industry are just evil and spread false information for their own profit? Go take a long walk off a short pier, comrade...

So-called "saving" is a bad idea in most cases as it is better for people or businesses on any income level to plow a healthy percentage of profits back into investment, research and development. Any corporation or wealthy individual who has been around long enough and succeeded has done this as a matter of course.
The article and this discussion leaves aside the whole point about taxes and government intervention (read: profiteering) in financial transactions between entities.
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Nice, Becki. I guess you're the explanation for why the U.S. has record levels of personal, corporate and government debt.

Hope you learn to speak Mandarin - they're going to own us soon the way we're going.
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ok let me tell you, I am that single mother they are talking about. I have 2 teen boys, and i get no child support because there dad is a loser. But anyway, I make about 20,000 a year and I would love to save money but It is just Impossible! i get paid once a month and stuggle to just to make it till the end. How the heck can i save anything. I worked 3 jobs before and the stress just got to me so bad. The SO CALL HELP these people are talking about is crap. I get NOTHING. Beacause according to the welfare people i make to much money for a family of 3. Try feeding 3 people on 240 a month food allowance. it sucks. but i do it some how.
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