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How many Marxists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

None: the lightbulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.

How many debutantes does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A cotillion.

How many Alzheimer's patients does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

To get the the other side.

One.

How many psychics does it take to change a lightbulb?

How many Irish grandmothers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Ah don't you worry now. You go out and have fun, I'll just sit here in the dark.

How does it change many dyslexics to take a lightbulb?

How many Mystery writers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Two. One to screw it most of the way in, and the other to give it a surprising twist at the end!

How many people from a particular demographic does it take to perform a specified task?

A finite number. One to perform the specified task and the others to behave in a manner stereotypical of that particular demographic.

Science vs. Journalism

Science:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7307/full/nature09304.html

People exert large amounts of problem-solving effort playing computer games. Simple image- and text-recognition tasks have been successfully ‘crowd-sourced’ through games^{1, 2,3}, but it is not clear if more complex scientific problems can be solved with human-directed computing. Protein structure prediction is one such problem: locating the biologically relevant native conformation of a protein is a formidable computational challenge given the very large size of the search space. Here we describe Foldit, a multiplayer online game that engages non-scientists in solving hard prediction problems. Foldit players interact with protein structures using direct manipulation tools and user-friendly versions of algorithms from the Rosetta structure prediction methodology⁴, while they compete and collaborate to optimize the computed energy. We show that top-ranked Foldit players excel at solving challenging structure refinement problems in which substantial backbone rearrangements are necessary to achieve the burial of hydrophobic residues. Players working collaboratively develop a rich assortment of new strategies and algorithms; unlike computational approaches, they explore not only the conformational space but also the space of possible search strategies. The integration of human visual problem-solving and strategy development capabilities with traditional computational algorithms through interactive multiplayer games is a powerful new approach to solving computationally-limited scientific problems.

Journalism:

Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures