mike777 Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 I am really surprised so many got this one wrong. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 lol Mike! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BebopKid Posted July 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 My original expectation was a bell curve with 10 being highest, but with 7 being higher than the curve and 13 being lower than the curve. As the data shows, this is not what I found to be the case. For all interested, my sample size online and offline is now 101. Here are some fancy statistics: 12.020 Average (Mean)10.616 Geometric Mean8.753 Harmonic Mean13.000 Median13.000 Mode-0.348 Skewness5.006 Standard Deviation from Sample4.981 Standard Deviation from Population4.275 Average Deviation2505.960 Sum of Deviation Squares (SDS)25.060 Variance of Sample (Normalized SDS)24.811 Variance of Population-0.987 Kurtosis101 Sample Size Fancy pie and bar charts (both in percent): http://www.bryanleewilliams.com/images/pie-5-div.jpghttp://www.bryanleewilliams.com/images/bar-5-div.jpghttp://www.bryanleewilliams.com/images/pie-20-div.jpghttp://www.bryanleewilliams.com/images/bar-20-div.jpg (Edited to fix image links) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echognome Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Was the test was to see who could come up with the most random explanation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 My first impulse was 13, then I found that number to be related with luck and discarded it. I ended up picking 17 influenced by the fact it is prime. Numbers below 10 seemed too simple for me. If I had though of 14 before clicking I would had taken it over 17 (but didn't come to mind). 14 is the third most picked!. I am pretty normal it seems, quite depresing B) I think that when you see a random numbe between A and B, you think of what happens when you pick B or something close (maximum results), that's why more people will take numbers above them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blofeld Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 I just voted on this. But I have an admission to make. I didn't try to pick a random number. Instead I tried to pick a number to counteract the patterns other people would make. I went for 4, and this seems to have worked, to a reasonable extent. But that's playing psychology, not trying to pick a random number. Unfortunately I didn't realise what I was doing until after I'd voted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BebopKid Posted July 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Was the test was to see who could come up with the most random explanation? I just have too much time on my hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 I just voted on this. But I have an admission to make. I didn't try to pick a random number. Instead I tried to pick a number to counteract the patterns other people would make. I went for 4, and this seems to have worked, to a reasonable extent. But that's playing psychology, not trying to pick a random number. Unfortunately I didn't realise what I was doing until after I'd voted. So.....you couldn't pick 12........and why not? Poor twelve, always gets left out....its a dozen.....hey, even then it a baker's dozen so you don't even get 12. Just unfair. If only I could vote twice.... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 Next time we try to correlate the numbers with other things like favorite bidding system. Would mainstreamers tend to pick the more frequent numbers? Some surveys say that homosexuals are more likely to be left-handed than heterosexuals are. I've wondered if that could be explained by some people having a general tendency to ignore peer pressure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 I just voted on this. But I have an admission to make. I didn't try to pick a random number. Instead I tried to pick a number to counteract the patterns other people would make. I went for 4, and this seems to have worked, to a reasonable extent. But that's playing psychology, not trying to pick a random number. Unfortunately I didn't realise what I was doing until after I'd voted. Actually I did the same (and succeeded). Also my first reaction before I saw the votes or any posts was that 13 and 17 would be the winners. Not sure why I guessed so well, maybe because I read an article or two years ago on how people pick lottery numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 Me too, I voted 16. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 I voted 15. Why does almost no one pick 1 through 10? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 Square numbers rock. 9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtfanclub Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 I voted 15. Why does almost no one pick 1 through 10? We're greedy. You may think you're picking a number between 1 and 20, but your brain is much more primordial than that. We leave some behind so that the person coming next will be satisfied with what she gets and not follow us and bash our brains in to get our stuff, but we still take the human's, er, lion's share of the goodies. At least, that's my theory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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