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An Experiment
2006-02-05, 2:56 PM #1
24 hours from now I will tell you the purpose of this experiment. I cannot tell you now, as this would invalidate the results.

Edit: Please choose an option in the above poll without checking the results first.
2006-02-05, 2:58 PM #2
Alright then
Pissed Off?
2006-02-05, 3:00 PM #3
Reminds me of last week's episode of Numb3rs--had something to do with why pages become less and less worn the further you go into a book.
D E A T H
2006-02-05, 3:03 PM #4
Reminds me of that one poll I made where the purpose was to make it into a bell curve and then some admin screwed with the results.
Stuff
2006-02-05, 3:35 PM #5
I voted for cake.
Hey, Blue? I'm loving the things you do. From the very first time, the fight you fight for will always be mine.
2006-02-05, 3:37 PM #6
damnit, i voted with the majority
Holy soap opera Batman. - FGR
DARWIN WILL PREVENT THE DOWNFALL OF OUR RACE. - Rob
Free Jin!
2006-02-05, 3:45 PM #7
i didnt. I rule.
Code:
if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}
2006-02-05, 3:52 PM #8
Ha! I narrowly missed the majority.
2006-02-05, 4:26 PM #9
Heh-heh...so did I. This looks like it might be interesting. I wanna know what it's about :p
Very funny Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.
2006-02-05, 4:37 PM #10
That was weird.

-As it was loading, I thought, "Mine's going to be in the majority." Whaddaya know?
2006-02-05, 4:38 PM #11
Originally posted by Final_Hope__:
Heh-heh...so did I. This looks like it might be interesting. I wanna know what it's about :p

It's a "study" to see which option you'll choose. Do the majority of people just click the first one? Or the middle one? etc.
2006-02-05, 4:42 PM #12
I was trying to vote the least popular option. My first impulse was to choose first, but I decided to go with last because it would be too easy to pick the first one. They were tied at 4 when I voted, so I win. :D
Historians are the most powerful and dangerous members of any society. They must be watched carefully... They can spoil everything. - Nikita Khrushchev.
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god. - Jean Rostand.
2006-02-05, 4:45 PM #13
I voted the second option, because I liked that color best. lawl.
Wes Darklighter
|Theed|
2006-02-05, 5:00 PM #14
I wanted to vote the least popular too... so I clicked "view results" prior to voting.

Does that make me a cheater? Nowhere in the original experiment did it have a rule against knowing the previous results before adding to them.
Stuff
2006-02-05, 5:18 PM #15
I voted third. Just because.

Three's always been good to me.
2006-02-05, 6:15 PM #16
I refuse to be a specimen in your experiment...

:em321:
:p
2006-02-05, 7:28 PM #17
I hit the majority.
2006-02-05, 7:40 PM #18
I voted as soon as it came up, and hit 2. I'm not a trendwhore!
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2006-02-05, 7:42 PM #19
Hey jerks, stop voting for 4 and 5.

More 1 and 2, people! Let's make sure there's exactly the same number in every column when Jon'C comes back tomorrow.
Stuff
2006-02-05, 7:52 PM #20
I went along the lines of "Hey I'll click the last one... but they'll be expecting that" *Click second to last*
Holy soap opera Batman. - FGR
DARWIN WILL PREVENT THE DOWNFALL OF OUR RACE. - Rob
Free Jin!
2006-02-05, 7:52 PM #21
Me too

I figured most would go 3-4, and the rebels would go 1-6 so alas, I went 5...
My Signature
2006-02-05, 7:54 PM #22
Originally posted by genk:
I went along the lines of "Hey I'll click the last one... but they'll be expecting that" *Click second to last*

EXACTLY my way of thinking.


:( I'm so predictable.
I had a blog. It sucked.
2006-02-05, 7:56 PM #23
This thread makes me laugh.
2006-02-05, 7:57 PM #24
My initial gut reaction was to vote 2nd, then for some reason I just picked 3rd.
2006-02-05, 7:58 PM #25
i picked number 5
free(jin);
tofu sucks
2006-02-05, 8:01 PM #26
Statistically, the first stall in a public restroom usually is the "cleanest" because people more often than not will over look the first stall when entering, and prefer to go to a middle stall or even one on the very end.

Thats what I thought as soon as I clicked this thread.
I can't think of anything to put here right now.
2006-02-05, 8:37 PM #27
Well it looks like the very end is winning at the moment. :)
Historians are the most powerful and dangerous members of any society. They must be watched carefully... They can spoil everything. - Nikita Khrushchev.
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god. - Jean Rostand.
2006-02-05, 8:38 PM #28
Who said the least-chosen answer is the correct one?
2006-02-05, 8:40 PM #29
Originally posted by Jon`C:
Who said the least-chosen answer is the correct one?

People like to think they're different and noncomforming.

Myself, I chose the second.
2006-02-05, 9:02 PM #30
Least popular.

Although the results are starting to slightly resemble a normal curve, shifted though.
2006-02-05, 9:05 PM #31
I think his experiment is to see how retarded we are, arguing over 6 identical choices.
"Harriet, sweet Harriet - hard-hearted harbinger of haggis."
2006-02-05, 9:07 PM #32
Can I vote for all six using multiple accounts? :D
2006-02-05, 9:51 PM #33
I just kinda closed my eyes and jabbed my finger at one. I guess probability (god's debris, ba-dum-psh!) made us all pick that one.
一个大西瓜
2006-02-05, 10:27 PM #34
I chose 4, because like, 42.
2006-02-05, 10:28 PM #35
I think I hit the current majority.
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2006-02-05, 11:04 PM #36
Originally posted by Jon`C:
Who said the least-chosen answer is the correct one?


The public restroom experiment said the least-chosen is the correct. :p
I can't think of anything to put here right now.
2006-02-06, 1:32 AM #37
It seems to work.

And I won, of course. Can't fool me.
Frozen in the past by ICARUS
2006-02-06, 2:48 AM #38
That's some scary data!
Ban Jin!
Nobody really needs work when you have awesome. - xhuxus
2006-02-06, 6:55 AM #39
Mirrors. :em321:
the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot - LC Tusken
2006-02-06, 8:34 AM #40
All the cool people voted for the second option (except for Antestarr, Bobbert, Crimson, cybrid81, Glyde Bane, JediKirby, Michael MacFarlane, RingMaster481, Rogue Leader, SG-fan, Vincent Valentine, Wes Darklighter, Xanatos, and Zecks, who just voted it randomly, not because they were cool).
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