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This was stolen from MLIA...
At first i was like, wow, that's really really lucky. Then i did the math, it's astronmically unlikely. the first fraction that rounds to 87% is 20/23. Getting 20 right out of 23, assuming it was only ABCD multiple choice, occurs 1 out of every 4^20=1 099 511 627 776. Why would someone make up a story that isn't even that cool. Couldn't you come up with something more exciting or at the very least original. Everyone tells a story of how they put all B's or something along those lines
It coulda been curved.
That whole math spiel that you just ranted about
. . .
ABSOLUTELY ruined the joke
Maybe the teacher had a sense of humor and put ACDC in there a couple times on purpose. I'm a high school history teacher and for one of my tests I used ABBA for the entire test. The kids that know the stuff figure it out and get a good laugh.
Typically with multiple choice tests, if you put all C's you will get 60%
Didn't do very good math anon. He could have just truncated it, 87.5% comes from 7 / 8 correct.
This makes since, he did hint that it was just a page.
Also, low probability doesn't mean chances don't exist. People win lotteries, and even though you'll probably never be one of them, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
The lottery is not a good comparison. Millions and millions of people enter the lottery, and the probability of someone winning is very high. It's more comparable to just a handful of people entering a lottery and someone winning. Though there is a chance this is real, I am totally calling shens.
The maths is wrong, but I would still bet this is a lie. And if it was just meant as a joke, it is hardly funny.
I think it's hilarious and I also believe the poster above is a bellend
The true story and joke here is Anonymous took all this time an effort just to poke a hole in some mindless dribble on the internet..
sad waste of a life I hope you seek some help, you could have a full life ... be well Anonymous.
Why do people ruin funny things with technicalities? It's funny, why does it matter if it's probably or not or if the bloody math is right? It doesn't. Go away and ruin other things.
I think what Anonymous is trying to say is: "This is photoshopped! I can totally tell because of the pixels in the 'ACDC' part."
I'm with Chelsea--what's up with all the people online with nothing better to do than show how smart they are by poking holes in jokes? Then again, I'm the genius sitting here arguing with them...
don't feed the trolls
I took a test like this and put ABBA in it (over and over). I scored NOTHING. ABBA scored nothing!
This one time, long ago, during a school test. I answered as followed:
A,D,A,B,A,A,C,B,C,D,D,A,B,C,C,B,A,D,C,A
And then I was done with the multiple choice section of the test.
I probably passed the test.
With a passing score.
Does it matter whether this was real or not? You all read it and discussed it afterwards - mission accomplished! :)
It's unlikely that a group of people playing bridge will all get dealt a perfect hand. But it has been recorded. Just because it's unlikely, considering the unlikely things in our world, doesn't mean it IS false. Plus, considering the number of things in our lives that lie to us, this is just an entertaining drop in in the bucket, then.
For God's sake, people! I think it's true, and I don't care what the math is. he got 87%, so what? If he had gotten 100%, that'd be unbelievable, but 87%, geez! It's not likely, but it's not impossible either. Stop calling everybody a liar and have faith in humanity.
Stupid trolls.
And you're lucky you get score answering the same letter all over again, in Portugal that little trick gives you a 0 (zero).
(I have no idea how to put my name above, so I sign below)
Sincerely,
skuldandy.
Originally saw that from MLIA.
all of our lives have been effected whether we like it or not
I agree with your argument completely, husky.
Let me break this down:
a. We must have all been effected.
i. Most people are effected by their mother.
ii. Other methods of effecting people exist, i.e. cloning.
Therefore, it is not logically impossible to say that you know one person who was not effected by their mother. Although it is unlikely.
affected not effected
Jesus Christ! Who really reads this and starts doing math, instead of just smiling and laughing? Probably a loser who has nothing better to do with their time. Get a life! I like this!
ahahahahahahah
Actually I'm with the math kid, or the history teacher.
It's bogus, or intentional on the part of the teacher.
But only on the part of it being crazy improbable if random. Not the "it's not funny" part. Because, even if it's fiction I think it's very entertaining.
Kudos OP
STOLEN FROM MLIA
so gay
Just bubble in the "Key" bubble at the top of the scantron, you get 100% one hundred percent of the time, and everyone who gets scanned after you fails!
I've gotten 100% before by answering all B's
Granted I didn't guess and at the end of the test I was scared thinking I did something wrong. But /shrug
yeah i saw this on MLIA.
Epic math fail.
it isn't one in a trillion, it's one in 2,621 (assuming 7 out of 8 was what he got), or one in a billion or so if it was indeed 20-something questions.
Off by three orders of magnitude. Nice.
You weren't even calculating the right thing; you want 87% *or better* out of 23, not 100% *exactly* out of 20, which is what you did.
lern2statistics
Oh my god, so transparent!
If you put a monkey in front of a computer and let it type, sooner or later one of H.C.Andersens stories will come out of it.
This was on MLIA.
Either someone on this site copied, or vice versa
that dude that was trying to be a Genius was just a stoner kid trying to be funny. you can see hints that he is a stone throuhgout the message. note the 420
i did this once, too. i got an 87%, though, and i didnt use 'a,c,d,c' in that specific order, but in a different arrangement, with the added letter 'b.' overall, i was blown away. its just that, mathematically, it made no sense.
whatever - it was just a joke for f...s sake
Well, hells bells that's awesome!
the ACDC part was cool, and even funny as a joke. i could had taken it at that and been ok, but I wasted time of my life that i'll never get back on all you numnutz trying to prove it wrong, thanks a lot dummies
Who said the test actually ended with a multiple of 4? The test could have had any nr of questions.
Jess is a liar.
I once got 100% on a multiple choice test on avant garde art, by putting DADA all the way through. But then peanut hepple la throp win foon knoon toddly gosligwort nostra beenhole
I wish to comment upon the previous comments in a manner which begets disharmony.
Furthermore, the original author did not create this page, nor did he and/or she create any content worthy of a fraction of my attention. Good day.
It's not even real. That girl didn't really do that. It was on MLIA (mylifeisaverage.com) a few weeks back. She just copied and pasted it in her thing and took credit.
hmm. i can believe it would happen. i don't care about the math involved, i just care that the possibility exists, acdc is awesome live btw =p
i think the joke went right over anonymous's head. I will type slowly so you can understand this. AC/DC is a rock band.
This was stolen from MLIA.....
one time, I forgot i had a test just like this. I wrote "A" at the top of my desk "B" on the right "C" on the bottom and "D" on the left side. Then I spun my pencil for every question and answered with whichever letter the pencil was pointng at. I ended up in the 80's
I think this is photoshopped.
"Anonymous said...
affected not effected"
No...effected works.
Heheheh...to quote xkcd
"My hobby: Using the obscure forms of affect and effect to trip up amateur grammar Nazis."
Which is exactly what he was trying to do, I'm sure.
how many times did someone have to say it was stolen from MLIA, and i cant believe someone didn't say something sooner. people commented on everything else. and i don't even know why i bothered to read all those stupid comments on this stupid page. and all the other people who posted wasted there lives too. go to bed its 2 in the morning, or get back to work, or do something productive besides reading and commenting and arguing over a dumb picture. i know I'm doing that right now, but I'm ok with that, i have come to terms with it
Was that Bon Scott AC/DC or Brian Johnson AC/DC?
Mathematically possible, repost or not it is the bottom line that it could happen and for those of us who don't have the time to read every MLIA post it's interesting and fun. So on behalf of everyone who is about to give up on reading threads, you are the epitome of annoyance.
P.S.- Grammar Nazis: I think that first sentence was a run-on, feel free to scrutinize my work as I will not be back to read your pathetic comments.
I like cookies.
*steels coockie from anonymous
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crumble crumble...
Psh this is statistically impossible.
Lame. The only thing that would make this cool would be if it actually happened, which is why people are getting technical about this. They have good reason too.
Otherwise it's just someone trying very hard to be cool.
Sigh, why does everyone need to analyze everything. Just see the humor in it, chuckle, and move on. True or not, stop being such hardasses.
On the off chance anyone is looking for the way to solve the stats problem, it's a binomial distribution problem.
You have 8 trials with a .25 chance of success. What are the odds of getting at least 7 success? Answer is the odds of getting exactly 7 (.003666) + the odds of getting exactly 8 (.0000152588) = .0003818588. This comes out to about 1 out of 2619 (very similar to an above answer), which is certainly within the realm of possibility.
The joke made me laugh, briefly.
Someone took the time to do the math on this, I noticed. To you, I offer recognition and respect at your grasp of higher mathematics. Now go take a class on not killing the joke.
Yup, MLIA.
The best story like is the person who did this and the test only had ABC as answers (3 choices instead of 4, but the tester used 4-ACDC), I forgot where I saw it but the Teacher sent it back with some snarky comment to the effect of - if you'd at least read A question, you wouldn't have knocked yourself out 25% of the questions...