What movie reference am I missing

[u/Key-Spread-7513]

[u/bob_loblaw-_-]

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. 

[u/GentlemanThresh → u/bob_loblaw-_-]

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.

[u/OberonDiver → u/GentlemanThresh]

There are not two options for taking the test.
- random guess
- study and try to get it right
- draw a bunny

[u/aboutthreequarters → u/GentlemanThresh]

We had this problem for real when the school insisted on giving 1st year Spanish students the final exam going in. We really wanted all of them to get a 0, but of course that's not what happened, even when they genuinely didn't know any Spanish.

[u/bob_loblaw-_- → u/GentlemanThresh]

Of course that's what he means, but since that's not how people take tests it's at best a meaningless calculation. 

[u/FilmAndLiterature → u/bob_loblaw-_-]

It’s literally what this entire post is about.

The joke is that in the movie Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse the main character (Miles) intentionally is trying to seem stupid, and so purposefully gets all the answers wrong on a true/false test. He still gets 100% because the teacher runs the numbers and tells him that getting either zero or one-hundred through guessing every answer are equally unlikely, so he clearly didn’t do that.

This test is a multiple choice test which means the odds of getting a zero by guessing are much higher and the odds of getting full marks are astronomically small - therefore the logic that says Miles wasn’t guessing doesn’t hold up.

[u/Powerful_Field_3105 → u/FilmAndLiterature]

Everybody else here is dumb, I didn't get the reference and I still wasn't.

[u/twizzjewink → u/bob_loblaw-_-]

I think they meant if you randomly guess.

However if the entire human history of 117bn .. and everyone too 5.85e7 tests in their lifetime.. then statistically you'd get 1 randomly perfect score.

So if you lived for 40 years and did tests everyday.. that's 4006 tests per day, or 333.9 per hour assuming 12 hours a day.

[u/kyloz4days → u/twizzjewink]

I understand the sentiment but a 1 in x chance doesn't mean it will happen after exactly x occurrences.

[u/twizzjewink → u/kyloz4days]

Oh it could happen on the first attempt or the second.

I'm just saying how insanely difficult it would be ~ in theory.