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An Experiment
2006-02-06, 8:38 AM #41
Feh, I didn't vote to be cool anyway, I just voted for pure awesome.
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2006-02-06, 9:24 AM #42
Originally posted by ':
-[ellequin']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).


Hahahahahahahahaha.
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2006-02-06, 9:28 AM #43
And Schming is just a fad-following poser.
2006-02-06, 2:11 PM #44
Originally posted by ':
-[ellequin']And Schming is just a fad-following poser.


you make me :gbk:
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2006-02-06, 2:20 PM #45
2nd one.
nope.
2006-02-06, 3:24 PM #46
Originally posted by ':
-[ellequin']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).


You ought to be more grateful. After all, the second option is the correct one solely by virtue of being the one I picked.
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2006-02-06, 3:26 PM #47
The experiment was to see the distribution of a person's selection. As it turns out, they tend to lean more toward the middle results while overlooking the first and last options.

Mostly I was just trying to guess which mirror a person tends to select in a list of mirrors. Now we know the correct course of action: Pick the first one or the last one for the fastest bandwidth.
2006-02-06, 3:40 PM #48
GO NUMBER 4!!! GO GO GO
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2006-02-06, 3:48 PM #49
Nice expirement, Jon'C. Good idea too.
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2006-02-06, 3:52 PM #50
Truly Awesome Jon.
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2006-02-06, 3:55 PM #51
Neat. Mirrors.

I usually just pick the first one in a list anyways; my connection isn't fast enough that it would make a difference how many people were already connected.
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2006-02-06, 4:07 PM #52
An ingenious experiment. It might even be a valid one. Who knows. Very smart thinking, nonetheless. Although I should point out the result is exactly what was to be expected.
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2006-02-06, 4:43 PM #53
Originally posted by Jon`C:
The experiment was to see the distribution of a person's selection. As it turns out, they tend to lean more toward the middle results while overlooking the first and last options.

Mostly I was just trying to guess which mirror a person tends to select in a list of mirrors. Now we know the correct course of action: Pick the first one or the last one for the fastest bandwidth.


Of course, this works only on places that have a fixed mirror list. Places like filefront and such randomize the list (probably for this purpose).
2006-02-06, 5:12 PM #54
i am smært
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2006-02-06, 8:01 PM #55
erm, I bet if you'd made each instance of "option" instead say "mirror" it would have been more evenly distributed. All this "experiment" did was confirmed what they teach in school where B & C are more often picked then A or D and C is the most often picked of any of them. To this end, a lot of people I know pick "A" or "D" servers for just this reason.
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2006-02-06, 8:05 PM #56
... That was really really clever. Good experiment.
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2006-02-06, 9:09 PM #57
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*
Heh, same reasoning I used.
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