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2% or 98% of Population?

Just follow these instructions, and answer the questions one at a time and as quickly as you can! Again, as quickly as you can but don't advance until you've done each of them .... really. Now, scroll down (but not too fast, you might miss something).


THINK of a number from 1 to 10



MULTIPLY that number by 9



If the number is a 2-digit number, ADD the digits together



Now SUBTRACT 5



DETERMINE which letter in the alphabet corresponds to the number you ended up with (example: 1=a, 2=b, 3=c,etc.)



THINK of a country that starts with that letter



REMEMBER the last letter of the name of that country



THINK of the name of an animal that starts with that letter



REMEMBER the last letter in the name of that animal




THINK of the name of a fruit that starts with that letter





Are you thinking of a Kangaroo in Denmark eating an Orange?

Isn't that FREAKY!! If not for you, you're among the 2% of the population whose minds are different enough to think of something else. However, 98% of people will answer with kangaroos in Denmark eating oranges when given this exercise.

I'm not as unique as I thought I was. Very nice.

Because she was such a huge fan, Dido legally changed her birthdate of 12/25/71 to 6/25/71, the same birthdate of the Paddington Bears.

Yeah! Another fan of Strunk!

Considering how much gramatical mistakes an mis-spellings were in that passage. I did edit but must have forgot to press save.

I'm in the dominican republic with a cougar eating a raisin?

yeah, I was in Denmark with a koala eating an apple

It was initially an iguana in Dubai eating an apple, then I found out that Dubai isn't a country. I'm dumb.

Because of the multiplication by 9, you'll always end up with the number 4 and the letter D in that. Rigged, imo.

geek

To be fair, you're not in with the 98% and that 98% would contain most of the dummies in the world.

I'm trying to figure out exactly what this figure would imply. Does it imply that Denmark is well-known universally because of something like Hamlet, which has permeated into our society so much. Does it imply that kangaroos are popular because they're like the only animal people directly associate with an entire country? I'm guessing your average person who can't find France on a map probably can't name any other animals from Aussie (coincidence, though?). I just don't know!

The orange one, coming off the letter o, seems a little more obvious, but alas.

I think it's implying that there aren't a lot of countries and animals that start with D and K, respectively.

There aren't LF, but 98% picking those? There's obviously something more going on, even if it is stupid and pointless to think about.

But read the thread title.

It's also possible that 98% is just made up.

Anecdotal experience says it's relatively accurate.

But yeah. Be that way. Haha.

I got this too.

Countries that start with D:

Denmark
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
Dominica (thanks, Wikipedia)

Only two of those countries might be well-known by the populace.

For animals, if you do a GIS for "K is for" (with quotes), you'll get a lot of images that say "K is for Kangaroo" that come out of children's books. I do see one kiwi. I don't see any koalas or killer whales. This wikipedia list of animals doesn't even include koalas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_names

am i getting my words crossed up? i thought i always heard that
word associated with "perl" and thought it simply meant
"able to be added onto"...

in perl's case -- the cpan modules that you can add to perl
indeed cover virtually every known computer language and/or interface.

not in order, but another similar word is "SEQUOIA".

Dave, I wasn't taking you to task for the spelling, but given what you wrote about, the confluence of "naseaous" and "museaum" just appealed to me as a sort of visual pun. I, for one, would never comment on spelling, mostly because I'm a terrible speller myself.

A literature teacher does not teach english, thus he is not required to be able to spell.

Staying with the topic of useless (or, at the very least, only marginally useful) knowledge, two notes on usage:

From Dictionary.com, "The two literal senses of nauseous, “causing nausea” (a nauseous smell) and “affected with nausea” (to feel nauseous), appear in English at almost the same time in the early 17th century, and both senses are in standard use at the present time. Nauseous is more common than nauseated in the sense “affected with nausea,” despite recent objections by those who imagine the sense to be new. In the sense “causing nausea,” either literally or figuratively, nauseating has become more common than nauseous: a nauseating smell."

From the American Heritage Dictionary, "Traditional critics have insisted that nauseous is properly used only to mean "causing nausea" and that it is incorrect to use it to mean "affected with nausea," as in Roller coasters make me nauseous. In this example, nauseated is preferred by 72 percent of the Usage Panel. Curiously, though, 88 percent of the Panelists prefer using nauseating in the sentence The children looked a little green from too many candy apples and nauseating (not nauseous) rides. Since there is a lot of evidence to show that nauseous is widely used to mean "feeling sick," it appears that people use nauseous mainly in the sense in which it is considered incorrect. In its "correct" sense it is being supplanted by nauseating."

Grunching: Most people with piercings know this. Sorry!

I should have asked them all first. Next time I'll know.

The plastic tube at the end of a shoestring is called an aglet.

Jim Brown is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the College Football Hall of Fame, and the Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

Harry S Truman is the last President of the US without a college degree.

The opposite of "vacuum" is "plenum".

Most people with piercings know what a philtrum is.

Hens don't need to have sex to lay eggs.

I learned this in OOT and my head exploded.