Hello! After 531 responses to my survey, here are the results! Some are exactly what I expected and some are quite surprising. I will share my thoughts in a moment, but for anyone who doesn't know, here was the scenario: You are at your friends house watching TV.  As you are about to start a new episode your friend says "Hold on, let me grab a glass of water real quick."  Your friend briefly exits the room and returns with what they consider to be "a glass of water."  Participants were given a description of the contents of the glass and then asked Are you okay with this being called "a glass of water"? To fit on the chart, some of my water descriptions had to be simplified, If you'd like to see the original format the survey is still open.

Thoughts

  • I'm surprised so many people (51) were anti distilled water. I feel like it's definitely water right? It's not typically meant for drinking though, and can potentially cause mineral deficiencies if it's the only water you drink.
  • This is 100% a language question, so I expected things described as "water with…" to be considered water more than things with their own more specific name (water with salt>water with Liquid IV>Gatorade)
  • Of the Not Waters I expected plant based milks and sprite zero to do slightly better (like one or two votes better) But I do think all of the yes responses for the pop/milk/juice category were likely jokes

I'm tired and want to get this posted now. Please let me know if you have any questions! I know this is a very flawed and biased survey, but the idea was more to create discussions than anything. How many ingredients do you need to remove from a can of pop before you can start calling it water?

Posted by spicybigdadd

16 comments

  1. What absolute lunatic thinks that a glass of tap water is not a glass of water? And what did these people think that distilled water is? If anything is a glass of water, it’s a glass of distilled water.

  2. i want to know who was the one who thinks pepsi/coke counts as a glass of water

  3. Now I want to know what containers would be called “glass of water”: plastic glass, paper cup, mug….

  7. By this logic, if you add whipped cream on top of hot chocolate, over half of people will think it’s not hot chocolate anymore.

  8. I got the data from my google form and very inefficiency made my charts in google sheets

  9. What we see here is competition for the ecological niche inhabited by jan Misali. Truly incredible stuff.

  15. What in the first world is edible glitter? And why?

    Also, why *one* bay leaf?

  16. I was in disagreement with a few of these, and then I saw the wording of the original survey.

    I think I agree with these within the wording you presented.

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