That’s a great line! Do you mind if it I use it elsewhere, crediting you?

I can’t be guided by that motto, because I neither think I’m a genius nor that people are idiots (unless diagnosed as such). It’s funny, I was just speaking with somebody about the use of that second term and other similarly medical terms (moron, imbecile) yesterday. They are commonly used in a very derogatory manner, without concern for the people who are actually diagnosed that way (even though those are somewhat outdated terms, I believe).

I often get chided for over explaining…I accept your chastisement in this case, and I’ll be careful to explain it more carefully the next time.

I’d say squares and circles have been pretty standard for…oh, at least fifteen years or so. The circles go back to when we had a series of knobs in a car for the radio, and each one was a preset. That’s why the circles are called “radio button”…you couldn’t press in two buttons and listen to two stations. Squares emulate the checkboxes on a paper form.

However, that doesn’t mean that everybody knows it, of course. Just as I tend to explain all of the abbreviations, you are correct that it would have been better to explain it, and I’ll try to do it that way in the future.

That’s a reasonable assumption…I tend to assume that people know that squares mean more than one choice, circles mean one choice…that’s pretty standard. It wouldn’t hurt to be explicit, though…I’ll do that next time. I think most people get it, because there are a lot more responses on the multiple choice poll questions.

I think you can answer again, if it’s a different IP address, if that helps.