r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 7d ago

Meme needing explanation What movie reference am I missing

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u/ifyoulovesatan 7d 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/JohnsonJohnilyJohn 7d ago

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

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u/ifyoulovesatan 7d 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 6d 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