[1259] Wrong Opinion
└ posted on Friday, 9 April 2021, by Novil
- Sandra: The results for our poll on bikini armor are in! And they’re almost identical for men and women!
- Sandra: This–
- Larisa: That’s all well and good, Sandra. But how’s it possible that 45% of all women have a wrong opinion and didn’t vote for [3] or [4]?!
- Sandra: Larisa! Your opinion on the matter isn’t any more valid than anyone else’s!
- Larisa: Pfffhhp
- Larisa: That’s exactly what someone with a wrong opinion would say! I, on the other hand, am a genuine know-it-all!
- Sandra: Prove it!
- Larisa: I will!
- Larisa: “Larisa’s Life Advice!” Next week on this channel!
![[1259] Wrong Opinion](/comics/2021-04-09-1259-wrong-opinion.png "[1259] Wrong Opinion")
Now Larisa is woke?
@ Tomas:
Funny way to spell horny
@ Satom:
More like “hot as fire” (pun intended).
This I’ve gotta see! ^^
That is the moment when the greater and indescribable horror and fear enter in our lives, isn’t that?
Interesting poll results. I still see no problem. The men are sent to war, where the worst of them die. The women are sent to tend bar or dance, where it’s safe.
Now, Larissa’s Life Advice, that’ll be a return to what’s funny- and what’s flammable!
How to hide lighter burns on your clothing. A guide on fire-cooked modern food. Candles in the bath- a relaxing bath, or a bath in wax? Boyfriend- why you should be allowed a spare. How to be saucy without being a freako. Lawn care for the post-fire soaked backyard, metal detectors for nails, and mudwrestling your way to not doing the dishes.
PROOF IT should be PROVE IT
Oh this is going to be good!
Oh boy, a week of horrible advise, yay!
@ Narga:
And you’re perfectly okay with her response of “I’LL DO”?
It’s an intentional grammar mistake, they’re goofing on each other.
@ MisterCinephile:
Apparently not!@ MisterCinephile:
Apparently not!
Sometimes Larisa scares me hard!
This can only end badly.
Anyone else get the urge to do a χ² test to see just how similar the distributions are of men’s answers and women’s answers? No? It’s just me? Okay. Let me just… hmmmn, where are the final raw numerical results for each category?
Well of course the succubus-in-training would say that favoring solution B would be the “right answer”
@ Nimz:
Hmm, well, the scale is in percentage and not raw number, so I’d imagine that doing something like that shouldn’t effect it at all.
‘Both.’ ‘Both is good.’
Larissa should really pick up some Kingdom Death models to paint. Otherwise: that stuff is maybe more Ivan’s style.
I welcome with enthusiasm the return of Larisa. It’s been a while.
Actually, that’s very interesting and encouraging.
It shows that it doesn’t matter what gender you are, opinions are similar across the board.
It also demonstrates that, maybe, quotas are less important than having a competent person who is able to listen, respect, and represent people.
@ Nimz:
You are not the only one to wonder. We have the total number of votes cast and the rough percentages from the chart. Eyeballing the results, they do look pretty similar, but if you group 1+3 and 2+4 and drop #5, you might get a significant result.
I also think the wording of the poll was more ambiguous than the results being presented. The results seem specific to personal preference, whereas I interpreted the poll more generally. I would probably always go with option A, but I voted #4 because I think other players should have a choice.
People shouldn’t have the wrong opinion. That’s very insensitive & should be forbidden.
@ Vicious Sand:
You are oddly mixing up reality and fiction. IRL women never did dress up like that. In video games, comics, movies etc. the male and female characters partake in the exact same activities.
Justpassingby wrote:
I assume his point is that people in general mix up reality and fiction. It’s all nice and well to be a big hero, fighting the dragon to protect some innocent villagers.
But it reality this behavior neither makes sense for men nor women. It makes sense to take up arms for family or friends, but surely not for strangers, especially if you get nothing in return.
You missed a prime opportunity for her to call it “Larisa Explains It All!”
Ask your parents, kids.
Sorry, Larisa, but armor has a job to do. Options and fun costumes are well and good, but not worth somebody’s life!
That said, I look forward with glee to the upcoming week… it’s nice to get back to the core cast and actual humor.
Huh. These results don’t align with what I was seeing at the polls when I voted, at all.
Nobody else is going to mention that?
Deane Gainey wrote:
I saw a majority for both options? And I think it was followed by option (A). And that was similar among men & women. What exactly does not align?
Deane Gainey wrote:
The results are normalized by gender, maybe that accounts for the difference?
Deane Gainey wrote:
There’s more than seven times as many male readers as female readers so numerically it is different, but the graph is a percentage by male or female not straight numbers.
While the figures are roughly even, I think it is interesting that there does seem to be a slight trend of men being more likely to prefer solution B or to see no problem.
Draxynnic wrote:
Well, men like their half-naked Elves & women like their strong barbarians (half naked or not).
There was once an article in gamestar/a German games magazine, which basically called to abolish the half naked Elves in World of Warcraft. Wow, did they get a backlash. I think they had to ban half of their readers 😉
I agree with Larissa… The Sexy Option should always be an option.
Common sense be damned… 😛
This is pretty interesting!
Larissa Explains it All. . . I’m sorry my fellow 90’s kids it had to be done
@ Justpassingby:
“You are oddly mixing up reality and fiction.” So is mixing up sensible armor and bikini armor. Dress like you’re gonna get killed, vs you don’t really need to wear that today. And the veiled bikini has always been a mix of reality and fantasy. Or did you think that bellydancers were strictly from Conan?
“It makes sense to take up arms for family or friends, but surely not for strangers, especially if you get nothing in return.” No matter the century, no matter the country, getting nothing in return is a description of the army. They always needed shields and armor, but were often too cheap to supply everyone who needed it. Now, rhetorical, is “Dr Zhivago” and “A Tale of Two Cities” reality or fiction? 🙂
Larissa explains it all!
Wait, we already did that joke. Uhhhh
Larisa’s declassified survival guide?
This’ll be good.
I (woman) accidentally voted for B when I meant to vote for A, but couldn’t see any way to undo that vote. Confused by Larissa or just clumsy fingers on a too-small phone screen?
@ Sllimkered:
Part of me preferred the absurdity of the original version.
@ Vicious Sand:
excuse me?
Spoken like like someone who just assumes instead of actually looking things up.
The death rate of the armed services is a mere 2.51% (according to forces.com), but that’s only if you get shipped out.
The yearly deaths of military personnel is just around 800. ( https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/IF10899.pdf ) however, domestic abuse results in over 30,000 deaths a year ( https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fvs02.pdf )
Harmony wrote:
Well virtually nothing that happens currently at globe can be described as full scale war. The closest thing to it could recently is the Azerbajdžan invading Armenia… and casualties there were far in excess of this for much smaller militaries.
What is currently happening is “incidents” – and while you are as dead as when you buy a farm during and incident as during the war (Starship troopers 1959)… its simply “politics by other means”.
when actuall war starts – the death toll will be FAR higher, especially if someone will want to go to actually win and end war – which still requires pile of mudfoots on the ground. You cant truly end a war without full scale occupation.
And just Afghanistan would require 2-3 milion troops deployed for an effective one. (and assume casualties in that case…)
Vicious Sand wrote:
Firstly, any scenario where any of the options portrayed are more than set dressing is fantasy, and has been for a couple of centuries at least.
Second, since at least 1914 civilians nowhere near a battleground have been killed by enemy action, so nowhere is safe, least of all a bar just behind the front line, if such a thing exists any more.
Third, you seem to be forgetting the multitude of women who were and are front-line nurses, drivers, pilots, and assorted other non-combatant, but still dangerous, roles
OldBrit wrote:
Let’s be realistic. Of course older women >40 are not important & can be sent to war. & of course it might make sense to protect children and younger women.
So, it’s not so much men vs women, but more that specifically children (including boys) and young women might be protected, but not old ones.
Arent wrote:
Oh, I’m not surprised at the result, but I did find it interesting that there was a slight slant that way. A result that confirms an expected trend, even if the trend is weaker than expected, is still an interesting result.
Draxynnic wrote:
It would be really interesting to look at google search results for men & women. I’m pretty sure women are much worse than men concerning sexuality 😉
Geez, there’s a few of you who are thinking that the guy in the knight armor is meant to be shipped to look for Saddam’s WMDs or something. Age of the sword and arrow, not the rifle and rocket, guys. It’s a completely different setup. Of course, the bellydancer has continued to exist into the modern day. Barely, but continued. And the poll was about bikini armour, not gender equality.
@ Vicious Sand:
So only the worst die in war? That’s an interesting point of view. We can feel relieved, I guess.
@ Pax:
I’m glad I’m not the only one to think of that. I was going to be sad if I got to the ‘new comment’ box and didn’t see someone else mention it.
nekokami wrote:
Okay, so I made some best-estimates for the raw poll results. Each color has 257 pixels total above the zero line, so that’s about 30.5 results per pixel for men and about 4.21 results per pixel for women. I did not merge or discard any of the options, so the χ² test will have 5 degrees of freedom. Assuming we want no more than a 5% false negative rate, we can look up the minimum value of χ² that would result in rejecting the hypothesis that the distribution of men’s preferences and women’s preferences is the same: 11.07.
Ignoring the ±15.25 results error bars for men and the ±2.105 results error bars for women for each option, I calculated χ² to be about 11.12. Just over the cutoff, so I would say there probably is a significant difference between the distribution of men’s preferences and women’s preferences. Wiggling those error bars around mostly gives χ² above the cutoff, but sometimes below the cutoff, so I really would need the actual raw scores to make a determination of statistical significance.
It is worth noting that the majority of the contribution to my calculated value of χ² comes from the last option: “I have no opinion.” Omiting that option would cut χ² in half, easily, so there does not appear to be a statistically significant difference in men’s preferences and women’s preferences, among those people who have a preference.