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Melon
22 Oct 2007, 11:39
New poll!!! Make sure you vote on it, but no looking at the results beforehand. That's called cheating!

Zero72
22 Oct 2007, 11:41
Hmm. Do I win?

KRD
22 Oct 2007, 14:04
Hah! I think I got it right. As right as I could, anyway.

bonz
22 Oct 2007, 14:38
Hmm ...

SupSuper
22 Oct 2007, 18:16
I picked a random option. Apparently it's the most popular option. So I guess I'm doing something right.

Xinos
22 Oct 2007, 18:39
Mee too. And I did not cheat.

Paul.Power
22 Oct 2007, 19:04
I'm afraid I cheated, because I didn't have a clue what was going on and wanted to find out.
But then I picked the option I would have picked anyway (which was wrong)
This would have been funnier if the poll options were "triangle, circle, star, square, squiggles"

MtlAngelus
22 Oct 2007, 19:28
Yes! I picked the only option no one else had picked. :cool:
What do I win?

bloopy
22 Oct 2007, 23:48
I don't think you need ESP to pick the correct one, but picking the wrong one is clearly a sign that you lack ESP capability. :p

Paul.Power
23 Oct 2007, 00:16
This could simply show that "faced with the choice of picking a number between 1 and 4, more than the fair share of people (Melon included) will pick 3"

FutureWorm
23 Oct 2007, 00:21
i'm not capable of esp :(

Pickleworm
23 Oct 2007, 03:28
This could simply show that "faced with the choice of picking a number between 1 and 4, more than the fair share of people (Melon included) will pick 3"
But those that are the best will back 2. The best people. That's me and everyone else who picked 2 :cool:

SomePerson
23 Oct 2007, 04:55
But those that are the best will back 2. The best people. That's me and everyone else who picked 2 :cool:
Heck yeah!

Squirminator2k
23 Oct 2007, 05:20
I knew you'd start this thread.

Melon
23 Oct 2007, 10:19
This could simply show that "faced with the choice of picking a number between 1 and 4, more than the fair share of people (Melon included) will pick 3"
That's true, it could.
Or it could just be because making this poll amused me.
Still, if you ask people to choose a number between 1 and 10, most people choose 7. If it's between 1 and 4, most choose 3. I wonder why?

Paul.Power
23 Oct 2007, 10:54
That's true, it could.
Or it could just be because making this poll amused me.
Still, if you ask people to choose a number between 1 and 10, most people choose 7. If it's between 1 and 4, most choose 3. I wonder why?
7's a lucky number for many people. In a poll from 1 to 10, it has the interesting property of being a non-distinctive number: it's not at the beginning or the end, but it's not in the middle either. It will therefore feel a more "random" choice than, say, 1, 5 or 10.
2 and 3 will be more popular than 1 and 4 here because they're in the middle. It's like a multiple choice question with a numerical answer (e.g. "Approximately how long is the Great Wall of China? 4400km, 5400km, 6400km, 7400km"): if you don't know the answer, you're more likely to go for one of the ones in the middle.
Psychology of randomness (whether it has a proper name or not, I don't know) is something I find very interesting.

bonz
23 Oct 2007, 13:32
7's a lucky number for many people. In a poll from 1 to 10, it has the interesting property of being a non-distinctive number: it's not at the beginning or the end, but it's not in the middle either. It will therefore feel a more "random" choice than, say, 1, 5 or 10.
2 and 3 will be more popular than 1 and 4 here because they're in the middle. It's like a multiple choice question with a numerical answer (e.g. "Approximately how long is the Great Wall of China? 4400km, 5400km, 6400km, 7400km"): if you don't know the answer, you're more likely to go for one of the ones in the middle.
Psychology of randomness (whether it has a proper name or not, I don't know) is something I find very interesting.
I always slightly bump the side of my head to get my random generator marbles tumbling.

SomePerson
24 Oct 2007, 00:15
Still, if you ask people to choose a number between 1 and 10, most people choose 7.
I choose 4.
What do I win?

FutureWorm
24 Oct 2007, 02:42
But those that are the best will back 2. The best people. That's me and everyone else who picked 2 :cool:
oh yea that's right :cool:

MtlAngelus
24 Oct 2007, 06:59
I'm the ONLY person that chose 1. I deserve a prize! :mad:

SupSuper
24 Oct 2007, 16:33
Onesies are for losers.

Xinos
24 Oct 2007, 16:49
This could simply show that "faced with the choice of picking a number between 1 and 4, more than the fair share of people (Melon included) will pick 3"
Maybe, but we havn't seen a poll like that. This one featured four identical dots, which is not the same as a number sequence.
I'm sure that if the options would have been numbers the result of the poll would be different.

worMatty
24 Oct 2007, 18:07
Possibly, yes, but likely only because of any mental associations the poll user has with any number. The dots are not numbers but they are organised internally numerically for reference. What we're being offered is a range of selections which has a beginning, end and middle, as do numbers.
It's how the 'think of a number' tricks work.

Pigbuster
25 Oct 2007, 05:35
Hooray for bell curves.

AndrewTaylor
25 Oct 2007, 18:06
7's a lucky number for many people. In a poll from 1 to 10, it has the interesting property of being a non-distinctive number: it's not at the beginning or the end, but it's not in the middle either. It will therefore feel a more "random" choice than, say, 1, 5 or 10.
2 and 3 will be more popular than 1 and 4 here because they're in the middle. It's like a multiple choice question with a numerical answer (e.g. "Approximately how long is the Great Wall of China? 4400km, 5400km, 6400km, 7400km"): if you don't know the answer, you're more likely to go for one of the ones in the middle.
Psychology of randomness (whether it has a proper name or not, I don't know) is something I find very interesting.
Odd numbers are more popular than even, I think, and ones about 2/3 through the range. 3 and 7 come out of that pretty well.

Alien King
25 Oct 2007, 18:43
Despite knowing that option three would be more popular, I went with two.

SomePerson
25 Oct 2007, 21:01
Despite knowing that option three would be more popular, I went with two.
That's because you're just too awesome to vote for #3. Like me.:cool:

Plutonic
25 Oct 2007, 22:13
I've always concidereed the most random numbers to those next to the least random numbers.

AndrewTaylor
25 Oct 2007, 23:16
I've always concidereed the most random numbers to those next to the least random numbers.
Was this post randomly generated?

Akuryou13
26 Oct 2007, 15:09
Was this post randomly generated?
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