r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 12d ago

Meme needing explanation What movie reference am I missing

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u/TwillAffirmer 12d ago edited 12d ago

No, if you're guessing randomly, getting 100 is less likely than getting 0. Because for each question there's a 3/4 chance to miss it and a 1/4 chance to get the right answer.

If you aren't guessing randomly, but in fact know every question, getting 100 is no harder or easier than getting 0. Because you can get 0 by choosing to answer each question different from the answer you know is correct.

If you only know most of the questions, getting 100 is harder than getting 0, because for every question that you don't know you have a 1/4 chance of getting it right if you're aiming for 100, but a 3/4 chance of getting what you want if you're aiming for 0.

Still, with this many questions, to get exactly 0 it's almost certain the student knew most of the answers and was deliberately choosing the wrong ones.

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u/chicken2007 12d ago

Getting 0 and 100 are only equivalent of it's true/false only test.

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy 12d ago

Only if you are choosing answers randomly.

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u/ifyoulovesatan 12d ago

They're still equivalent in the sense that one can only purposefully get 0% or 100% if they know all the answers.

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u/Hammerofsuperiority 12d ago

There's a 0.000095% chance of getting all the answers right/wrong at random in a 20 true/false question test.

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u/Champshire 11d ago

YOU WOULD THINK, IN A GAME, WHERE THERE ARE ONLY TWO POSSIBLE CORRECT CHOICES, THAT ONE WOULD STUMBLE INTO THE RIGHT ANSWER EVERY SO OFTEN, WOULDN'T YOU? IN FACT, THE PROBABILITY OF NEVER GUESSING RIGHT IN THE FULL GAME IS A STATISTICAL WONDER! AND YET, HERE WE ARE!

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u/DeepResonance 11d ago

I CANNOT WIN!

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u/OneStrangePotato 11d ago

That is correct Brennan, you cannot win the game.

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u/JohnsonJohnilyJohn 12d ago

A confident misunderstanding can also give you 0% and you would know none of the answers

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u/ifyoulovesatan 12d ago

Possibly, though a misunderstanding such that you aren't even ever right once by accident seems almost impossibly rare. Though yes, it is at least conceivable. But then so too is a misunderstanding such that you have the wrong idea in your head but manage to get every answer correct for the wrong reason, and things are perhaps balanced again.

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u/JohnsonJohnilyJohn 12d ago

Switching the names of some concept in your head could work, like for example confusing acute and obtuse angles. And this doesn't need to make you wrong in every question, just in enough questions that getting the rest wrong by chance is a lot more believable

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u/upholsteryduder 12d ago

Statistically speaking, that's not going to happen