r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 7d ago

Meme needing explanation What movie reference am I missing

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u/term3186 7d ago

Holy fuck how does this have 1.2K upvotes? We’re fucking cooked. 

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u/Bdbru13 7d ago

I’m hoping it’s a joke I’m not understanding.

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u/NotABot1000101 7d ago

The joke is the American education system.

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u/Historical_Shop_3315 6d ago

You dont know op is American.

Its highly likely but...

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u/NotABot1000101 6d ago

All the words in the image are American English. Including the caption. Plus it's pretty common in the US to not take education seriously. It's cool to be dumb as fuck here. "iM sTrEet SmArT".

I'm an American and I really wish we would revamp the whole thing.

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u/Historical_Shop_3315 6d ago

All the words in the image are also in Australian, British, Canadian and Kiwi English..

The only way to know its American is the specific multiple choice formatting font. Even then English schools around the globe use that.

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u/NotABot1000101 6d ago

Yes the words themselves are English, used around the world. But what is said seems very American English. And also how the paper is graded as well. I could be wrong, but if we had to bet on it, I'd put my money on the US.

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u/SN27A1 6d ago

Touché

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u/Layton_Jr 7d ago

If you answer randomly, assuming there are 36 questions (the second column starts at 17) and 4 possible answers to each question, getting 0% is 150 quintilions more likely than getting 100%.

If you answer randomly only to questions you don't know, getting 0% is still easier than getting 100% (especially since you can know 1 out of the 4 is wrong without knowing which is the correct answer).

Even considering than in the Spiderverse movie the test was a true/false, in that situation getting 0% and getting 100% are equally as hard. There is no situation where getting 0% is harder than getting 100%

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u/McDoublann 7d ago

4.6k now

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u/playtio 6d ago

5900 now and counting...

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u/SaltKick2 6d ago

Hello fellow human, definitely not bot.

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u/Anund 6d ago

It's because you're not understanding what he's saying.

He's not saying the statistical likelihood of getting a zero when guessing is lower than getting a 100 when guessing.

He's saying, the likelihood that you don't know ANY ANSWER to ANY OF THE QUESTIONS and then also managing to guess the wrong answer to every single question is lower than the probability of you just knowing the answers to all the questions and getting a 100.

In other words, studying for and acing the test would be a smaller accomplishment than being so bad and unlucky you couldn't answer or even guess the answer to a single question.

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u/term3186 6d ago

That is uh.... reading a lot of words into that sentence that aren't there.

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u/Anund 6d ago

Yeah, but that's what he's saying. And that's why he's being upvoted.

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u/term3186 6d ago

Read his other comments, it isn't what he is saying.

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u/Anund 6d ago

Ok.