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Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
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Have you sat on a horse?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
@Pepijn Fun question!
I may be on the high end -- my parents owned horses when I was young and I took riding lessons for a year in middle school, so I went a little beyond just sitting. (Lessons included proper horse care! These were probably not the absurdly expensive lessons...)
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Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
π π π΄
Have you sat on a horse?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
Have sat on several horses.
Pet peeve: "boost for scientific accuracy" - you aren't going to get anything that even slightly resembles a representative sample, even if you look at it through dark glasses after 6 beers.
I have previously said that any post containing a poll and asking for boosts to improve accuracy must have "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" as one of the poll answers, and I stick by that assertion.
#Dewey #Truman #DeweyDefeatsTruman #statistics #sample #poll #polling
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@glitzersachen @Pepijn @dabeaz Youβre not sure if it was a horse?
No, I am not sure if I sat on one.
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@josh0 @robynredbreast π yeah makes sense... I learned that that's a thing at some point after I grew up and entered the "real world". (Though to this day I have never seen a real party where this was happening)
@diazona When's your birthday? I think we could make this happen.
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@diazona When's your birthday? I think we could make this happen.
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Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
π π π΄
Have you sat on a horse?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
@Pepijn the only horse I sat on was in the school gym.
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Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
π π π΄
Have you sat on a horse?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
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note: the question is not "have your rich parents paid 50.000 of your local currency on gloriously expensive horse lessons and then you went on a skiing holiday". The question is: "have you sat on a horse".
Mini-horse = horse
Pony = horse
Cow = not horse, wrong thread.
And yes, as many people point out: that school-trip to an inner-city petting school where all six yr olds sat on Alfiiiii!! the sturdy mini-horse = yes, I've sat on a horse.
edit: Macro-horse = horse
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Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
π π π΄
Have you sat on a horse?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
Once was riding a trail the other time, or times, were carnival rides with ponies or horses hitched to a large rotating turnstile
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Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
π π π΄
Have you sat on a horse?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
@Pepijn A reap horse, too. Not a wooden merry-go-round one.
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Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
π π π΄
Have you sat on a horse?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
@Pepijn this makes a lot more sense to me than the cow one because horses can be trained to let people sit on them, even if the humans have no idea what they're doing. I've done a couple short riding excursions like that but I don't actually know how to ride at all--I still had fun, though!
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@Pepijn no, because they're creepy things with blackened eyes and the power to shatter pelvises.
@gsuberland @Pepijn Traumatic fwaggle lore: I grew up around horses, to the point where I resented them as a teenager. My folks were hard up, but extended family had horses and everything we did fucking revolved around them, I hated them.
As soon as I was independent to stay home I wanted nothing to do with horses, but they talked me into one more ride in my late teens.
And that's how the last horse I sat on died while I was sat on it, and I took that as a sign.
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Once was riding a trail the other time, or times, were carnival rides with ponies or horses hitched to a large rotating turnstile
@Chancerubbage @Pepijn I look ridiculous on horseback. So I try to avoid it. π
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Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
π π π΄
Have you sat on a horse?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
@Pepijn several times. I haven't sat on a cow, but I have sat on a cammle, andan elephant. I have also sat on a dog. This was a german shepherd and I was six.
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@Chancerubbage @Pepijn I look ridiculous on horseback. So I try to avoid it. π
I donβt think my balls had dropped yet in either situation, so to speak, so I probably wasnβt worried about impressing the girls or not.
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@Pepijn several times. I haven't sat on a cow, but I have sat on a cammle, andan elephant. I have also sat on a dog. This was a german shepherd and I was six.
@Pepijn I have in fact ridden a horse several times, not just sat on it. first in 1992, then in 94, and finally in 99, the elephant was in 94, and the dog was in 96.. Forgive me I'M autistic, with an almost adedic memory.
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Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
π π π΄
Have you sat on a horse?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
@Pepijn I only picked "yes", because "probably" β as there's evidence I once sat on an elephant (for a minute, in a circus, backstage), I just can't imagine, that I never sat on a horse.
But, other than at the elephant, I don't have any memory of sitting on a horse. So, yes; but with a lump of salt
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Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
π π π΄
Have you sat on a horse?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
@Pepijn not on a horse but on an elephant
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Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
π π π΄
Have you sat on a horse?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
@Pepijn i never sat on a cow but i have petted and attempted to milk a cow. i say attempted because i was young and i couldnt get the hand motion right and probably didnt have the grip strength. have sat on a horse a couple of times at day care for pictures and i feel like at either a renn faire or girl scout camp of some kind where they led us around in a circle lol
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@solitha @Pepijn Wealth is comparative. Not criticising but people who've never missed a meal may not regard food security as wealth. Someone whose family relies on foodbanks for food, or who has to go from one casual job to the next, may see the idea of a holiday as unachievable.
Getting to Scouts or Girl Guides may be a luxury. I tried to get that for my own kid but local groups have closed down (not enough volunteers) and transport time and costs were too much for groups in nearby city. My kid's aged out now and has no interst in horses anyway.
It may be luck as much as wealth too. My cousins weren't wealthier than me or my brother but they grew up in a rural area where riding horses was easy. Neighbours were farmers with a few horse for working livestock.
I learned to ride along with younger friends. My brother wasn't interested so he didn't bother.
@Kay I understand all that.
Of course we were better off than a family suffering from food insecurity or worse.
But "rich" is more of an objective term, an upper class tier.
Even considering it as comparative wealth, we were perhaps average or maybe a bit below in relation to the families of our time and city. Even without the many stables around, access to horses was not out of reach for most.
But the "where" and "when" most definitely matter, as you said.
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