Survey posted 2008-01-03 06:22 by Michael.

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Of course Ticalc, glad to see POTY is over!

Well, the 'Voting results are still hidden' 0.o. Glad it's over anyway :)

hmmm, 2.5 days later, I'm still the only sesquipedalian lover

Maybe you're the only one who knows of its existence.

Seriously though, what is it?

I wonder if not everyone recognizes the analogy format, because no one has discussed the correct answer in the comments.

I thought it was "TI-83 Plus is to TI-82 as [answer 1] is to [answer 2]", but none of the answers made sense that way, so I picked randomly. Maybe I just don't get analogies, or maybe I have the format wrong.

...well, to be clearer, the last one made sense technically, but it obviously isn't true (IMHO) so I counted that as not making sense.

Bah my 82 was much nicer than 83-plus, it wasn't burdened down with all those Flash-RAMs and whatnots...

Your format understanding is correct, but there is one clearly correct answer.

This is the most fun I've ever had in a survey :)

Ah, my problem was that I had no idea a serpent was a musical instrument. I thought that was just the random fun answer.

I said Assembly : Syntactic, since that's the one of the major things the 83 Plus has over the 82, the other being Flash.

Though, knowing MV, that could very well be wrong ;)

Okay, since no one has posted any discussion of the analogies, I will reveal the answers.

Analogies are about relationships. The given analogy of TI-83 Plus is to TI-82 is one of descendant to ancestor. The TI-82's successor was the TI-83 whose successor was the TI-83 Plus.

The first choice, ticalc.org : Nexus is a type relationship between two nouns, with ticalc.org serving as a nexus for the TI community.

The second choice, GraphiTI : Frippery is a attribute relationship between GraphiTI and an adjective describing GraphiTI(frippery: something showy, frivolous, or nonessential).

The third choice, Casio : Adversary describes the attribute of Casio to ticalc.org visitors.

The fourth choice, Assembly : Syntactic is also an attribute in that assembly language follows syntax rules.

The fifth choice, Sesquipedalian : TI-86 makes no sense at all :)

The sixth and correct choice, Euphonium : Serpent is a descendant and successor analogy. The musical instrument called a serpent was the predecessor of the ophicleide which in turn was the predecessor of the euphonium. Thus the euphonium is two generations descended from the serpent, just as the TI-83 Plus is two generations descended from the TI-82.

The seventh choice, Lackluster : Fantastic is a pair of antonyms, carefully listed so that it would be 83+ is lackluster and 82 is fantastic which makes no sense. Even if this choice was reversed, antonyms aren't the correct answer.

YAY!! I got it right!

Unfortunately, I answered that from "euphonium" sounds like Latinate for "good sound", and TI-83 Plus is good, and "serpent" is Biblically bad, so the TI-82 (assuming here that newer is inherently better).

I got it right, too! Heck, I even understood how it followed. Do I get a cookie?

I just picked it because I like euphoniums.

This is great, but how long has it been going on? It's like new polls are frozen.