Or rather, what word do you see first?
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Now, mark off your answer in this poll.
Thanks for answering.
If you're wondering what this is all about, I'm just curious whether there's a particular word that crops up in people's mind the most. I'm trying to design a slide that has a humorous element and can also segue to a discussion on bias.
Note: Just added the word "HIST" to the poll as well (might take a minute to appear on the online poll). Missed that one myself - not sure if that's a reflection of a certain bias I have!
Have also just added "HSIT"
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The work I first saw is not an option in the poll. :)
Posted by: Ashley Moore | November 30, 2009 9:07 AM
I saw "HIST" like the abbreviation for a history class at college. But it wasn't one of your choices :(
Posted by: Laura | November 30, 2009 9:10 AM
I must be weird. I saw "HIST", thinking it an abbreviation for "history."
Posted by: Ahcuah | November 30, 2009 9:19 AM
None. I saw what you wrote.
Posted by: Steve Higgins | November 30, 2009 9:31 AM
Sorry - ditto. I saw HIST and thought HISTORY.
Posted by: steve | November 30, 2009 9:32 AM
I'm with these guys. HIST
Posted by: Greg | November 30, 2009 9:54 AM
I saw HIST as well.
Posted by: --bill | November 30, 2009 9:57 AM
HIST
Posted by: Michael D. Barton, FCD | November 30, 2009 10:03 AM
Another one for HIST.
Posted by: Martin | November 30, 2009 10:07 AM
I just saw HSIT, but I (and some others) may be unlike your target audience in that we came to the slide from a link that read 'What word do you see?'. In my mind the question was not what word I would see but what combination of letters I would see.
Posted by: Rosie Redfield | November 30, 2009 10:08 AM
I saw "HIST", but to me it's short for "histogram"
Posted by: Stephen | November 30, 2009 10:22 AM
I just saw HSIT, not a word at all.
Posted by: george.w | November 30, 2009 10:23 AM
HISTory
Posted by: Don | November 30, 2009 10:26 AM
HIST again. At a glance it matches the first and last, with just a transposition in the middle. SH!T was next, and my Dad always called my Mom "TISH", so that's in there too. By the time I get to THIS, I'm thinking of it as an anagram puzzle.
Posted by: Dave X | November 30, 2009 10:35 AM
Yet another person who saw HIST(ory)
Posted by: Mike | November 30, 2009 10:45 AM
I saw "HIST" as well. (as in history class)
Posted by: Chris | November 30, 2009 10:45 AM
I first saw "HIST", but since this is actually a Danish word (meaning "yonder") and since it is not one of the possibilities, I voted on the next word - which is "SHIT".
Posted by: mogmich | November 30, 2009 10:56 AM
I actually saw "heist"! But that's probably because I just watched a show whereby two guys went in a store called "heist."
I swear.
Posted by: Khalil A. | November 30, 2009 11:41 AM
I first saw HIST, not as an abbreviation, but as the interjection, informally used to attract attention, usually in an unobtrusive way. Odd only because I've taught Ancient History, Modern History, and Black History a number of times in high schools, but did not first see HIST as the abbreviation. Second work I saw, was a matter of elimination.
Posted by: Jonathan Vos Post | November 30, 2009 11:43 AM
I saw HSIT why is this not an answer option....?
Posted by: Heinrich | November 30, 2009 11:52 AM
I saw sh*t but I do not think it necessarily has something to do with bias. It might have to an extent but I think that the other options are just to different. For SITH, THIS and HITS you just have to change more letters whereas for SH*T it is only reversing the order of two letters that are already adjacent. I didn't see hist but then I didn't know that its a word either.
Posted by: beebeeo | November 30, 2009 12:17 PM
I guess I'm watching too much The History Channel... ;)
Posted by: Joâo Carlos | November 30, 2009 12:39 PM
Another one that read it as you wrote it. HSIT.
I'm very used to acronyms at work so that was my first thought.
Posted by: Kiera | November 30, 2009 12:43 PM
I saw the impolite word for solid waste, which I suppose means I'm dirty-minded. :(
Posted by: Matt Springer | November 30, 2009 1:05 PM
HSIT. Make it a choice.
So hsit or hsin't it your intention that I see it?
Posted by: cm | November 30, 2009 1:41 PM
I saw "SIT." My copy-editor's brain threw away the H at the beginning of it as an artifact of a misplaced space.
Posted by: Interrobang | November 30, 2009 2:28 PM
HSIT, then THIS. In between, my mind kept trying to rearrange the letters to form "SIGHT".
Posted by: gk | November 30, 2009 2:53 PM
HSIT.
It refused to look like anything else to me.
Posted by: Rob Jase | November 30, 2009 3:02 PM
I saw "HIST", but not for "history". I read it as "HIST" for "hysterectomy" (misspelled, obviously).
Posted by: The Nerd | November 30, 2009 4:02 PM
HSIT
I thought "wait a minute, this isn't a word"
Then I played Boggle
Posted by: natural cynic | November 30, 2009 6:12 PM
In the first flash I saw it not as a word in itself but as a contraction of another word, one resembling "horsespit".
Posted by: Savage | November 30, 2009 6:32 PM
I saw "HSIT", but "IT" popped out as readable (not "SIT").
Posted by: David Harmon | November 30, 2009 6:45 PM
I saw HIST, as the closest thing pronouncable as a word. Speaking multiple languages may have an effect, as I am used to reading unfamiliar, but pronouncable, words.
Posted by: Jefrir | November 30, 2009 7:27 PM
heh... I saw sh*t first. What does that say about me??
Posted by: Donna B. | November 30, 2009 9:25 PM
Alomst any Einglsh pparagarh can be uodrsonetd porevidd the fisrt and lsat lrteets of a wrod are kpet. I sspecut this eipxalns the ptupailory of HIST.
Posted by: Duae Quartunciae | December 1, 2009 12:31 AM
I saw HSIT, and (like Kiera) saw it as an anagram.
Posted by: porovitch | December 1, 2009 7:57 AM