Yes/No or True/False?

[jducoeur]

Way back in the early days of Querki, I was figuring out what the major Property Types were going to be.  Figuring out the list was easy; figuring out what to call them was another matter, since I'm trying to avoid techie jargon in the basic parts of Querki.  So instead of "Markup", it's simply "Text", and "Integer" is "Whole Number".  (Yes,

Comments

[mneme]

Assertion.

Binary (most people who don't understand "boolean" still understand that a "binary" thing only has two values).

[hudebnik]

Ooh, are we playing the alphabet game? Me too!

Assertion

Binary (if not Boolean)

Choice

Decision

Either

Flag

Umm... I'm stuck on G....

[tpau]

see, i would call it a Boolean, and in the exposed user thing show examples. i say this because clearly you have 20 replies here, and they are mostly all saying various things.

alternately, flag or on/off may work BUT... i would call it Boolean. because honestly it is what it is, and most users actually know the word these days. the helpy texgt would help the 20%

[jducoeur]

most users actually know the word these days

Really? I'm intrigued. That's unintuitive to me -- I'm having trouble remembering any time I've seen it in non-technical usage -- but I'd certainly be happy to find that this is true. I wonder how we could test this. (My LJ, and even my FB, are obviously wildly unrepresentative...)

[tpau]

hmm, not sure how to test it honestly. my experience is purely anecdotal