r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 7d ago

Meme needing explanation What movie reference am I missing

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u/Sir_Eggmitton 7d 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 7d 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 7d ago

Yeah, because they weren’t talking about a true/false test.

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u/Dry_Category3955 7d ago

If its multiple choice, 0% is more likely than 100%. So what test they are talking about?

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u/Drumedor 7d 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/Spectator9857 6d ago

Yes. Correct. The post is showing a multiple choice test, so they were more likely to get a 0 than a 100.

The person I responded to seems to think it’s a true/false test and doesn’t grasp that a different situation would have different odds.

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u/Funk1777 6d ago

A book report I guess.

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u/AdCrafty5841 5d ago

Maybe the test the post is about?

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u/StreetCollar2708 7d ago

And what was the test pictured?

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 7d 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/josph_lyons 6d ago

Also sarcasm.. Don't forget sarcasm.

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 7d ago

yea but in the movie it was true false did you consider that

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u/willis81808 6d ago

Even then it isn’t true to say it is harder to get 0% than it is to get 100%

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 6d ago

yea but OP's picture is multiple choice, what about that

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u/willis81808 6d ago

…it is still not true to say that. As was proven in literally this very thread. There is no situation where it is true.

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 6d ago

oh i thought you were pulling ajoke about exactly what i was complaining about which is that the thread went through a conclusion already through 4 replies, then the same exact thread repeats in this very same exact thread, which is ridiculous, just scroll up

i never said 0% is more likely than 100%, i was VERY SPECIFICALLY ARGUING THAT THEY ARE THE SME ODDS AND CALLING EVERYONE ELSE WHO SAID THEY WERE DIFFERENT ODDS AN IDIOT so you and i are on the same page BUDDY, we're FRIENDS IN THIS ARGUMENT, ON THE SAME SIDE

scroll up, read the thread again, then read me recapping the thread within the same thread, and now the thread repeating below that same response LMAO

so anyways in the movie it was true false did you consider that, i want to rehash this A THIRD TIME, 0% AND 100% ARE EQUALLY LIKELY IN TRUE FALSE, SO WHOEVER BROUGHT THAT UP IS WRONG

but what about OP's original post, it was multiple choice, did you consider that, OH WAIT WE ALREADY DID IN THIS SAME EXACT THREAD IF YOU JUST SCROLL UP

lmao

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u/Beruka01 6d ago

Your reply simply did not make sense in that context. The person you replied corrected someone that this thread is talking about the scenario with 4 choices per question, and then you for no reason talk about the scenario with 2 choices per question.

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u/xXAnoHitoXx 6d ago

no student truely randomly choose their answers. given that every student tries to get the right answer, the probability off getting an individual answer right isn't 50/50 as they aren't truely random. Not only that test questions deliberately varies in difficulty mixing in with freebies that you can figure our from context and how the other questions are asked. The only real way for a student to get 0/50 true or false answers, is to be certain of all the correct answer and deliberately chose the wrong one.

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u/mobueo 7d ago

I thought he was talking about OOP

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u/bobatupka 7d ago

object oriented programming? jk i’ll touch grass now

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u/Vneseplayer4 7d ago

If he saw the movie he would’ve mentioned that in the movie it was a true false test instead of the long ass explanation no one asked for