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jedusor ([personal profile] jedusor) wrote2008-12-04 10:13 pm
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Two very good reasons to use this icon

1. I turned in my final portfolio and gave my final presentation, and Qualitative Methods is OVER. FOREVER.

2. I got all 195 countries. I am ridiculously proud of myself.
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[identity profile] phaseonehundred.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
o.0 that map is missing a bunch of countries

[identity profile] jedusor.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
Oh? Like what? It says it's the nations recognized by the UN plus three other widely recognized nations.

[identity profile] phaseonehundred.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
oh, that explains it. It's missing some of the newer ones in Africa, but that continent goes through a political rearrangement every week anyway.

[identity profile] phaseonehundred.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
+ trinidad and tobago

[identity profile] rebbyribs.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Algeria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Dominica, Egypt, France, The Gambia.
Hungary, Iran, Japan, Kazakstan, Libya, and Mongolia.
Norway, Oman, Pakistan.
Russia, Qatar, Suriname.
Turkey, Uruguay, Vietnam.
West Xylophone, Yemen, Zim-bab-we!

[identity profile] rebbyribs.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Erm, that would be Qatar then Russia.

[identity profile] jedusor.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
I have had that song in my head for the past two days.

[identity profile] thatwesguy.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations to you!

But re: the countries website: a whole-hearted "meh." After rejecting "united kingdom", "great britain", and "england", it took the first two letters of "ukraine" as "uk". Wholly underwhelming.

[identity profile] qaqaq.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
It does take "United Kingdom". You must have made a typo. (And it shouldn't take "Great Britain" or "England", since those aren't the name of the country.)

[identity profile] thatwesguy.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 10:55 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed; confirmed. I must have made a typo. (Rest assured that I only tried "England" and "Great Britain" on the basis that if the damn thing couldn't spell United Kingdom, it might also be confused about the name of the country. ;-) )

[identity profile] qaqaq.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats! I did it just now and got 186 out of 195 ... but most of them were ones I wouldn't have missed if I had been using the individual continent maps. On this map, it's just impossible to see what you haven't covered yet. (I mean ... Greece? Venezuela? Obviously I'd have gotten those, I just couldn't see that they hadn't been covered yet.) So I guess that makes it even more impressive, since you not only have to name the countries, you have to do it getting a very limited amount of feedback about which ones remain to be gotten.

[identity profile] jedusor.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's the trick. I was getting all of them on the continent quizzes a while before I got all of them on the full map because of the feedback thing.

[identity profile] linaelyn.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
You did awesome on that countries thing! I only got 114 in 15 minutes. Lots of little islands I missed, and I'm still weak on Africa.

*high fives you*

[identity profile] jedusor.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Note that I was doing this obsessively for a day and a half before I managed it, in large part because I was so terrible at it when I started that I decided I needed to improve. So it's more a feat of rote memorization than of actual knowledge. :P

[identity profile] rubrick.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't tried the countries, but I, too, am done with Qualitative Methods forever.
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