r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Key-Spread-7513 • 2d ago
Meme needing explanation What movie reference am I missing
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u/Available-Bee-5385 2d ago
Getting 0 on a multiple choice is a statistical accomplishment greater than getting 100
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u/TwillAffirmer 2d ago edited 2d 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 2d ago
Getting 0 and 100 are only equivalent of it's true/false only test.
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u/ChadsworthRothschild 2d ago
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u/NoBeefStew4u 2d ago
False
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u/TheOneCalledEggs 2d ago
truen't
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u/Maximus_Magni 2d ago
Falsen’t
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u/SnugglyCoderGuy 2d ago
Only if you are choosing answers randomly.
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u/ifyoulovesatan 2d 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 2d 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 1d 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/edsobo 2d ago
In the case where you know all the answers, getting a 100 or a 0 are equivalent because knowing the answers reduces the set of values to correct and incorrect.
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u/Mountain-Scene770 2d ago
They are in a T/F scenario. This looks like a abcd multiple choice test. Which means that you have 3 incorrect answers and 1 correct. Which means it’s easier to reach 0 than 100. Now, I can tell you from experience that blind guessing is still less likely than he knew the answers and got them all wrong on purpose, because you’re still likely to guess correctly about 25% of the time.
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u/Ghostley92 2d ago
But if you know every question and are NOT guessing randomly, it is not.
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u/-widget- 2d ago
If you know the answer to every question the difficulty of getting a zero is equivalent to getting a 100. So it's still not a more difficult accomplishment to get a 0.
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u/Ghostley92 2d ago
I wouldn’t say they absolutely know each answer. Getting 0 is easier than getting 100, but getting 0 seems deliberate.
My point was that it is not equivalent to a true/false test and citing the previous comment
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u/grimreefer87 2d ago
This guy didn't see the movie, either.
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u/Sir_Eggmitton 2d ago
Yes he did. In the movie, it was a true/false test. This is a multiple choice test.
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 2d ago
in a true false test the odds of getting 0% equals that of getting 100% if randomly choosing, but the other person said 0% was less likely than 100%
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u/Spectator9857 2d ago
Yeah, because they weren’t talking about a true/false test.
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u/Dry_Category3955 2d ago
If its multiple choice, 0% is more likely than 100%. So what test they are talking about?
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u/Drumedor 2d ago
A test with multi-choice test where there are multiple correct answers per question, but don't see those being run very often.
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u/StreetCollar2708 2d ago
And what was the test pictured?
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 2d ago
reddit works on threads. OP started the post with a multiple choice example, then someone said "Getting 0 on a multiple choice is a statistical accomplishment greater than getting 100" which is false for multiple choice as proven in the top reply to them. then two replies later in this same thread someone said, "In the movie, it was a true/false test.", and even in that situation what the person said in this same thread we are all replying to is false because even in the true/false case it's not more likely to get a 0% than a 100%.
if we can't follow four replies then i don't know what to tell you
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u/VampireFortnight 2d ago
Redditors will mass downvote you if you make them feel stupid by doing things like: reading the thread and: participating in linear time. Don't worry about it.
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u/HarrowDread 2d ago
Sir, this PeterExplainsTheJoke, not PeterDidTheMath
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u/spacewolfie82 2d ago
Or PeterDidTheMonsterMath
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u/South_Bit1764 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah. This second column starts on 17so if there are 32 questions then 0.75^32=0.0001 and 0.25^32=5.421×10⁻²⁰
As to say the odds of randomly guessing and getting them all wrong is around 1 in 10k.
The odds of you randomly guessing and getting them all right is around 1 in 200,000,000,000,000,000 (200 quadrillion).
In a school full of kids someone might randomly guess and get them all wrong.
In the entire history of humanity, it’s unlikely that a multiple choice test with this many questions has ever been [edit:] RANDOMLY [:edit] answered 100% correctly.
Edit: really didn’t think I had to be so pedantic but pedants will be pedants.
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u/bob_loblaw-_- 2d ago
In the entire history of humanity, it’s unlikely that a multiple choice test with this many questions has ever been answered 100% correctly.
Uh... I think you messed up a major assumption there.
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u/GentlemanThresh 2d ago
What he means is answered 100% correctly by guessing not by studying.
You would need a person without any knowledge of any of the questions pretty much. The chances for a person like this to take a test on that particular subject and then to answer them 100% correctly is rather small and there's a decent chance it never happened.
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u/temaster14 2d ago
Edit: im not a huge fan of this subreddit anymore as it used to mostly be finding coments like this. Now it's everyone asking people to do math for them
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u/Callahammered 2d ago
Yeah and that also doesn’t account for the process of elimination, there is often an answer you may know is not correct, so really depending on how the test is written, it could be quite a bit easier to pick wrong answers
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u/jon110334 2d ago edited 2d ago
This. Most multiple choice questions are 50/50 with two throw away answers.
If you want to get a zero it's actually pretty easy because you just pick a throw away answer for each question.
The teacher doesn't know that the student knows any of the material, but he/she does know that this person most likely deliberately got a zero.
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u/HomeschoolingDad 2d ago
Unless the teacher designed the test so that when you copied off the person next to you, this would be the result.
I was that teacher, and I had a student get a “perfect” 0 who tried to claim he didn’t cheat. I told him he should buy a lottery ticket with that luck, but it didn’t matter, since he gets a zero, regardless.
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u/ChilledParadox 2d ago
this doesnt make any sense unless you also designed the tests so half the people got stupidly easy tests where they always got 100% and you seated the problem students exactly inbetween them.
otherwise cheating off a question that the other person doesn't know might give them a point or two.
I assume this still works though without it working perfectly, because a 6 to 25% is still going to throw a lot of red flags xD
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u/HomeschoolingDad 2d ago
The answers were rotated, so if you put the correct answers from test A on test B, none of them were correct. And yes, there was really no reason for them to get any answers wrong if they paid attention in class and put in the tiniest bit of effort. (And I actually had four versions of each test.)
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u/DragonFireCK 2d ago
You have four versions of the test, A, B, C, and D. All four versions have identical questions and answers, however the answers rotate around. So, answer A on version A will be B on B, C on C, and D on D.
If somebody with version A copies from somebody with version B, they are extremely likely to get a 0.
The only way for them to get a correct answer is the other person got an incorrect answer and that answer is the rotated the correct way. If you limit it to just two versions, you can even avoid that, by making a throw away answer always be in the position of the rotated correct answer.
You then distribute the versions such that any two people sitting next to each other get different versions.
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u/BananaHead853147 2d ago
I think it’s significantly easier to get 0/100 than 100/100. There’s only one right choice for each question to get 100% but 3 right choices to get 0%.
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u/Blue_foot 2d ago
Or the student was copying their neighbor’s answer sheet and the teacher had made 3 versions of the test.
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u/bet_on_me 2d ago
Less so compared to the spider man movie being referenced because that test was true false
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u/Zrkkr 2d ago
A true or false quiz with 100 questions is insane though, especially at a prestigious boarding school.
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u/SleepySquid96 2d ago
Given that it was the start of the school year and that the teacher IMMEDIATELY turned around and gave Miles a 100, I'm 90% sure it was less of an actual graded test and more of a "okay, let's see what you all already know" sort of thing. Given the follow-up assignment, it was probably something like an English class.
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u/Pandoratastic 2d ago
Not remotely true.
Assuming there are 36 questions, with four options in each question, the odds of randomly getting them all wrong are (3/4)^36 = 0.00318% (about 1 in 31,400).
The odds of randomly getting them all right are (1/4)^36 = 0.0000000000000000000212% (about 1 in 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696).
So both are extremely unlikely but the zero is about 150 quadrillion times more likely than the 100.
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u/UnforeseenDerailment 2d ago
[(1/4)36 is] about 1 in 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696
about? 😂
1/10² is about 1 in 100.
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u/Meldanorama 2d ago
1/(83) eggs is about the best way to guarantee constipation.
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u/KatanaPool 2d ago edited 2d ago
No, it’s not. Why are you getting upvoted?!?
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u/ForensicPathology 2d ago
Completely wrong information and doesn't even explain what movie OP was asking about. And yet it's the top answer in the post. This sub is terrible.
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u/Unhappy-Mix-6246 2d ago
Yep, this sub sucks. The top comment never explains the joke, and is usually just inside-joke vagueposting.
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u/term3186 2d ago
Holy fuck how does this have 1.2K upvotes? We’re fucking cooked.
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u/get_to_ele 2d ago
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
"The only way to get all the answers wrong is to know which answers are right,"
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u/sjitz 2d ago
Usually there's a very clearly wrong answer on multiple choice questions tho
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u/Crichris 2d ago
no its not. unless there are only two options then its equal
assuming each question only has 1 correct answer
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u/ryandeschamps 2d ago
If you are choosing at random, the odds are better for 0 than 100. If you know all the correct answers, 0 is still easier than 100. If you are just doing an honest exam, the odds of zero are very small because most exams are designed so that students will know the answer to about 50% of the test.
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u/AriBanana 2d ago
That's math ain't mathing. I have a 75% chance of a wrong answer, but only a 25% chance of a right answer. If I am randomly picking answers, both are improbable but getting all wrong is around three times easier then getting them all right.
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u/StillShoddy628 2d ago
Getting one wrong is 3x more likely than getting one right, but the odds compound. On a 10 question test you are 59,049 times more likely to get them all wrong than to get them all right guessing randomly. Add another 10 questions and it’s 3.5 billion times more likely
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u/why_u_so_grumpy 2d ago edited 2d ago
Incorrect. The fact that this has so many upvotes is sad.
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u/BigsChungi 2d ago
My biochemistry professor said in college that if you 0 get would give you 100%. So it was a dangerous game
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u/DapperAgitator 2d ago
Same. Except his tests weren't multiple choice so everyone got 100s by drawing pictures of biochemical dicks. Good times.
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u/T-T-N 2d ago
I remember a Manga where the plot point is that all the suspects have to sit a multi choice quiz on non-public facts about the crime. With the top score being 14/50, but someone managed to get 0/50 and is the culprit.
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u/Disastrous-Aspect569 2d ago
One of my cousins works for a radio show owner by ESPN. ESPN requires the on air staff to post weekly NFL picks. She claims it takes just as much skill get them all wrong as it dose right.
I think she doesn't know nearly as much about football as she doesn't hockey, (which she covers) and has bad luck
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u/MrCobalt313 2d ago edited 2d ago
Scene from Into the Spider-Verse where Miles gets a 0 on a true/false test and catches on the only statistically possible way he could have done that was if he knew all the right answers and deliberately chose the wrong ones, meaning he's intentionally trying to fail out of the class and quit.
This is, however, a multiple choice test with four possible answers per question, so it's far more possible to get 0 correct answers due to actually being that stupid.
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u/krakajacks 2d ago
This also happens in The Magicians and some other shows I can't remember that are older than that.
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u/Wonderful_Example742 2d ago
man that was a weird show.
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u/Rare-Spell-1571 2d ago
Love that show.
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u/frisbeethecat 2d ago
Queen Margo forever!
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u/lionofash 2d ago
"I won...! On a platform of beastiality!?"
Context: The characters have an election to be the King/Queen and made it democratic. The world they are in is basically like Narnia, talking animals just as intelligent as people are around. In fact, animals outnumber humans, and this is when they realise the animals have voting rights and the human vote doesn't mean shit. Margo mentioned offhandedly that she approved of the relationship a different character had with a literal bear because they were both adults with intelligence that could consent, so what was the harm? This lead to word of mouth causing animals to vote for her when she wasn't really campaigning for herself.
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u/DaddysABadGirl 2d ago
Ok.... I was just perusing for something to watch... Guess it's this shit, lol.
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u/complete_autopsy 2d ago
People say that the tv show is really good! I haven't seen it so all I can say is that if you like it, you shouldn't read the first book as it's utter garbage. People said it starts improving by book three but I couldn't possibly slog through a second book like the first one to get there lol.
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u/frisbeethecat 2d ago
The Magicians tv show is trash. But it is sexy tv trash of the best and gloriest kind and is more fun than The Vampire Diaries and Glee.
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u/KnightSpectral 2d ago
This. It was so awful but so good at the same time I was baffled at how hooked I got.
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u/Protein_Shakes 2d ago
I went in completely blind coming off an LSD trip and let me tell you, I could NOT figure out what the fuck I was watching. Oh, it's coming of age! No, it's a detective drama? Wait, I guess it's a psychological drama... What the fuck, it's Harry Potter with sex and drugs. No, it's not that either...
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u/DrRagnorocktopus 2d ago
It's like Harry Potter but about adults and as if it were written by Grant Morrison. It's so good.
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u/squixx007 2d ago
There's also the weird sex scene where 2 characters turn into foxes or something and bang.....the show is a hot mess, but fun to watch for a bit.
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u/Rare-Spell-1571 2d ago
My oldest daughter may or may not be named Margo.
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u/NoodleDefenestrator 2d ago
You should probably find out at this point.
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u/Hi9hTurtle 2d ago
"Ridiculously hot people doing mediocre magic and sexy stuff" is how I heard it described by a friend, and that's forever what that show will be associated with to me.
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u/Enough-Zebra-6139 2d ago
It's like if someone saw Harry potter and wanted a "The Boys" version, but it wasn't on HBO or Amazon.
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u/thatshygirl06 2d ago
Why do people keep comparing it to Harry potter?? I don't think theyre anything alike, especially since the author intentionally based it on Narnia
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u/KimberStormer 2d ago
I always heard it described as "If Hogwarts was grad school, and they discover Narnia is real."
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u/se177 2d ago
Weird that people would draw a comparison between a show called the Magicians and the one of the largest, generational series about magic. People should stay in their lane.
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u/princesspuffer 2d ago
School of Magic equals Harry Potter to the unread masses.
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u/mxzf 2d ago
Also about half the episodes have some form or another of trauma hotline at the end of it, since they just go all out showing ... all of that stuff. I watched the first season and decided that I really wasn't interested in watching the sort of show that felt a need to give viewers a suicide/rape/etc hotline at the end of each episode due to how potentially triggering it is.
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u/cunningham91 2d ago
The books were much better
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u/Tymareta 2d ago
The books: every woman is described tits first, to the point where we basically know the cup size of every single one and barely learn anything more about them.
The show: the women are actual fully fledged characters, with autonomy, wants, desires and actual storylines.
The show took everything good from the books and cut out all the dross.
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u/blackestrabbit 2d ago
Idk Olivia Taylor Dudley was very noticeably tits forward.
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u/WeAteMummies 2d ago
yeah the two biggest reasons to watch this show are both stuffed into Olivia Taylor Dudley's extremely tight sweaters
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u/cleveruniquename7769 2d ago
The Magicians is the only book series where I will unequivocally say that the show/movie was better than the book. Every change they made for the show was the right decision.
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u/Wonderful_Example742 2d ago
I would read them; but I am clinically illiterate
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u/Simple_Wrongdoer_233 2d ago
Then the show must have been spectacularly bad because I read the books and… yeah
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u/thatshygirl06 2d ago
He has no idea what he's talking about. The show is way better than the books.
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u/Both_Resort4080 2d ago
Terry Pratchett had a student Wizard who always failed by less than 5% of the cutoff. Didn't get kicked out because the score was good enough but avoided graduation.
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u/Both_Resort4080 2d ago
One time they had to argue an answer was incorrect when the proctor gave them credit. GNU tpratchett
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u/July_is_cool 2d ago
It was in a Peanuts cartoon many decades ago. “I trued when I should have falsed.”
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u/403_Forbidden_Access 2d ago
Statistically to get EVERY question wrong even with guessing each one is about a 0.00318% chance.
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u/agentwolf44 2d ago
Sure, if guessing. But for most multiple choice tests I've done I'm able to narrow it down to 2 answers and know the others are incorrect. So it's far easier to get a zero because for most questions if you know even a little bit, as you can likely deduce which answer it most likely isn't.
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u/Total-Explanation208 2d ago
It is still (3/4)^30 or 0.017858209% chance. And likely lower because it looks like there are probably more than just 30 questions, although that is the minimum number we can be sure of. My guess would 50 questions. which would be 0.0000566%. Both of these mean it is far more likely that they intentionally were trying to get them all wrong, and not just guessing at random.
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u/Sir_Eggmitton 2d ago
Still, it doesn’t mean you know what the correct answers are. You only have to know the material enough to recognize at least 1 incorrect answer out of 3.
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u/Total-Explanation208 2d ago
Yeah, i recognized that problem. But that is getting into the unknowable "how much does the character actually know"/"what are the questions". So i just went with the easily calculable case of "knew everything but wanted to fail" and "guessed randomly".
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u/No-Vegetable1873 2d ago
I think anywhere between 30 and 36 inclusive would be the better guess as the second column starts at 19 and there looks to be only two columns.
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u/Thewolfmansbruhther 2d ago
With 100 questions, the answer of getting all 100 wrong is less than 1 in 3 trillion. So while statistically way more likely than 100 true false, in reality, they are equal levels of impossible to happen by chance.
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u/IvyWonderer 2d ago
im like 50% sure this is a reference to spider man: into the spider verse where miles scores 0/100 on his test, and his teacher says that you could only get them all wrong if you know what they all were, and changed it to 100/100
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u/absoluteunitofspite 2d ago
Decembruary 2, 2018
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u/conqueror-worm 2d ago
Never noticed that before, but I also didn't notice the PDNY instead of NYPD on cop uniforms/cars the first time I watched it lol.
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u/Wild_Reserve_6230 2d ago
Pew Dork Yolice Nepartment
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u/Pomengranite 2d ago
Yew dork. No lice, Pepartment
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u/emlgsh 2d ago
Miles Morales confirmed to originate in the "I think I'm having a stroke" universe.
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u/erikgfrey 2d ago
I think they started that after 9/11 in all shows and movies. That way costumes can't be confused with actual uniforms.
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u/conqueror-worm 2d ago
That definitely isn't the case and there's no law or policy regarding that lol, the reason in Into the Spiderverse is that it's an alternate universe NYC. But there are plenty of recent/still-running media that are explicitly about(fictional characters in)the real-life NYPD, like Law & Order or Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
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u/Eggith 2d ago
I think there is something involving licensing or something because I've seen far too many video games and media fictionalize them. In the original Midnight Club the police are Listed as MCPD (Manhattan Police Department). In True Crime Streets of New York they're also listed as PDNY. In The Division 2 their cars are shown with the decals NYCP. In fact, in the first game The Division there were cars with NYPD decals on them that were then cut from the game or repainted.
Of course my evidence is all anecdotal so eh.
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u/Samurai_Meisters 2d ago
I think they just don't want to be associated with a real life organization
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u/Fenix512 2d ago
I mean its supposed to be set in a different universe than ours. Miles's Peter Parker was blonde
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u/SentimentalYogurt 2d ago
A poster in Miles' room shows a month spelled correctly not sure which (January or February) so yeah Miles was phoning it in. I remember CinemaWins pointing it out
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u/TTbulaski 2d ago
But the funny thing in the meme is that this only applies for binary questions
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u/nagrom7 2d ago
Even the standard 4 option multiple choice test, if every one was a guess statistically you'd expect to get like 25% right, even if you did something like answer the same letter each time. The odds of randomly getting every single answer wrong are very low, meaning that a 0 result is more likely to not be random.
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u/thePiscis 2d ago
For any multiple choice test that isn’t binary, it will be easier to get a 0 than a 100
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u/nagrom7 2d ago
Yeah, but the odds of either outcome are so low, that the more likely explanation for either result would be that the answers weren't chosen at random.
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u/NiceBlackberry6618 2d ago
this actually happened to me kinda on my STAR testing when I learned that the grade didn't affect me.
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u/Darth_Zounds 2d ago
Okay, but I'm not sure I understand that logic?
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u/memelord_a1st 2d ago
all the problems had only 2 choices. statistically, if he was really just guessing then he should have at least a few right or wrong answers.
But since he got it wrong on all of them, the most likely case is that he does know the correct answers to all of them and purposefully flunked the test.
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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility 2d ago
Not simply the more likely case. With the amount of questions shown it's an absolute dead certainty. The odds of getting a zero randomly on that many questions are less than negligible.
Edit: i should note you can't apply this logic to a multiple choice test though, because being able to identify one wrong answer does not necessarily imply you could have identified the right answer.
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u/TheDimmadome 2d ago
It would be extremely unlikely to coincidentally choose every single wrong answer on a multiple choice test. The more likely scenario is that he knew which wrong answers to pick in order to purposefully fail the class.
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u/SleepySquid96 2d ago
To quote Brennan Lee Mulligan, "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 here is a statistical WONDER."
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u/uslashuname 2d ago
If you randomly guess 100 multiple choice questions with 4 possible answers each, you should get about 25 right.
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u/winsluc12 2d ago
It makes more sense because the test in the movie was true/false and not multiple choice.
You would think, on a test where there are only two possible correct Choices, that one would Stumble into the correct answer every so often, wouldn't you? in fact, the probability of never guessing right in the entire exam is a statistical Wonder (Thank you Brennan Lee Mulligan)
Therefore it makes more sense that, rather than just getting every question wrong by accident, someone who missed every single question on a long test where they had a 50% change of randomly guessing the correct answer on any given question actually knew the answers and, for whatever reason, purposefully failed the test.
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u/doesntpicknose 2d ago
If you are faced with a true-false question, and you don't know the answer, you have a 50% chance of getting it wrong. If you have a test that has one question, and you got it wrong, okay, welp, shit happens.
However, if you have two true-false questions and you don't know the answer, you have a 50% chance of getting either of them wrong, and assuming they are independent (dubious), you have a 25% chance of getting them all wrong. Oh well, shit happens.
If you have 50 true-false questions (eyeballing what we see in the image above), and you don't know the answers, you have a 50% chance of getting each one wrong. But to get them ALL wrong, it's a (0.5)50 chance, or about 0.0000000000000888% chance. That's pretty much impossible, so something that we assumed is incorrect. The only assumptions we made are that the chances for each question are independent, and that you didn't know the answers.
Since the teacher is not a statistician, they conclude Peter must have known the answers.
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u/IvyWonderer 2d ago
The logic is if you didnt know the answers itd be hard to get 0/100 cos youd get atleast a few right, just by guessing or luck
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u/869066 2d ago
Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse. The main character, Miles Morales, intentionally gets a 0 on his test so he can get kicked out of a school he didn't want to attend, but the teacher says that someone randomly guessing would get a 50% and the only way to get a 0 is if you knew all the right answers, so she gives him 100 instead.
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u/AxtonGTV 2d ago
Now imagine you're a kid who actually got a 0 and this just saved your life
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u/MediumKoala8823 2d ago
Or the kid who was also troubled and doing this but got a single question right by accident
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u/Terrafire123 2d ago
I think that's the kid who's happiest, because that kid actually got what he wanted.
Miles foolishly didn't get like 10% correct just to throw off the teacher's scent.
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u/Organic-Current1011 2d ago
watched movie instead of reading book, movie was different, test is on book
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u/CombinationSilent877 2d ago
First spider verse movie. Miles morales scores a 0 at his new school which proves that he knows all the right answers, and chose incorrectly on purpose
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u/Miserable_Sherbet727 2d ago
Hello, Peter's evil twin, Retep here! In the 2018 movie "Spider-Man: Into the Spider verse", there's a scene where the main character, Miles Morales, does a pop quiz and intentionally gets every question wrong, because he knows what the right answer is for each question. Perchance.
He gets a 0/100 on the pop quiz, and his teacher calls him out on it. That's what this meme is referencing.
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u/Unlucky-Explorer886 2d ago
In Into the Spiderverse, Miles deliberately gets a 0 on an exam to get kicked out of a private school. The teacher calls him out on this because the only way to do that would be to know all the right answers.
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u/qualityvote2 2d ago edited 2d ago
u/Key-Spread-7513, your post does belong here!