Bold response from the gentleman whose TikTok videos are entertaining the bus at 6:55 am, once I ask him, gently softly politely, to turn his phone down:

"How am *I* supposed to hear it?"

It was in the poll, it just didn't get any support. See the footnote.

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, flanked by a little 3D printed Brontosaurus model, a light-up "Jurassic Park" tyrannosaur LED, and a gigantic life-sized 3D-printed Allosaurus skull, among various framed paleontology-related images

What does somebody's favorite dinosaur say about them? We're chatting about a new YouGov poll which asked that question of Americans. It's dinosaurs, pop culture, & public understanding of paleontology all intersecting on today's stream —

— and you're welcome to join us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

April — 1805
Napoleon is Master of Europe
Only the British Fleet stands before him
Oceans are now Battlefields

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Thank you so much!

Thanks! She's about a year away from TV time but we'll keep that in mind.

When I tested the survey I think I got 12 or 13 off the top of my head. I probably could have gotten more with effort. But also it's been many years since I seriously researched dinosaurs. (My kiddo isn't yet 2, so it'll be a little longer yet before my own personal Dinosaur Renaissance.)

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today so far

Have you been to L2 at Tii Cup on Hennepin?

I wonder if spinosaurus has been a more recent entry into the pop-culture canon. I don't have strong memories of it as a dinosaur-obsessed kid in the 90s.

That said we can't know for *sure* that people didn't look things up or have an AI generate a list.

22! This did include both Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus but we can count them separately now, thanks science.

Let me know if you have any questions or if I can help in any way! (Full-size PNGs of the charts, any crosstabs you want looked up, etc.)

(Sorry if this double-posts, Bluesky is straining)

It's called a "bullet bars" chart. A thin bar overlapping on a thick bar. Not a common chart but useful for comparative plots.

I tried more contrasting colors and thought it garish. The age labels should be right-aligned, tho — that's a mistake.

It's called a "bullet chart." Not an especially common chart type, but helpful in cases like this where you're comparing answers to different questions within demographics.

Triceratops, stegosaurus and ankylosaurus have been the three dinosaurs most mentioned in my mentions as people's favorites.

No, I instructed the AI classifier we used to be generous with spellings.

There was no explicit time limit. We did disallow modern birds.

There's been a fair amount of back-and-forth in my replies. I was surprised when drafting this to learn that a decade ago, brontosaurus was rehabilitated as a distinct species!

When I sat down to write the survey I also assumed that "apatosaurus" was the correct word to use. I was very surprised to learn the science had advanced!

I like the theory, but dinosaur haters are too rare to have had a significant effect on the results. (And they are included in the totals of the left-most column.)

27% of men and 21% of women say T. rex is their favorite dinosaur.

Among those who do have a favorite dinosaur, 44% of men and 37% of women say T. rex.

Asking the most important question!

I'm afraid your gall is a decade out-of-date:

Repeating the same post three times doesn't strengthen your argument.

I not uncommonly encounter people posting incorrect interpretations of charts. I replied with a clarification; I didn't QT dunk.

47% of Americans neither like nor dislike dinosaurs.

This chart says that 56% of those who feel neutrally about dinosaurs don't have a favorite dinosaur.

Lots of Boomers in my replies insisting that they liked dinosaurs when they were kids, as if that contradicts this chart.

33% of Baby Boomers is a *huge* group of people! It's less than the share of dino-lovers in younger generations, but it's not like only 5% of those 65+ liked dinosaurs as kids.

The Brontosaurus WAS a lie, but now it turns out it was the truth all along!