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Toby, Dave & Ian Explain XKCD

There is a graph. On the X axis is sex, on the Y is computer.

March 18, 2009 at 12:00am
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The author is observing that many people in his target audience have had a recurring anxiety-inducing dream about showing up to a college class on the last day after not attending most of the semester, even after being out of college for many years. It is unclear, however, if people who have not attended college would have this dream. Assuming not, this shows that the author presumes that most of his readers have attended formal institutions of higher education, providing a basis for them to have had this dream. This reinforces the idea that this is a comic for “smart people.”

The author is observing that many people in his target audience have had a recurring anxiety-inducing dream about showing up to a college class on the last day after not attending most of the semester, even after being out of college for many years. It is unclear, however, if people who have not attended college would have this dream. Assuming not, this shows that the author presumes that most of his readers have attended formal institutions of higher education, providing a basis for them to have had this dream. This reinforces the idea that this is a comic for “smart people.”

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  1. comeasyourmadness reblogged this from xkcdexplained and added:
    dreams like this, and I have them about high school as well. I woke up in a cold sweat one night in college,...
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