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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Gotta love that 5-10% that are just contrarian, misguided, uninformed, careless, or picking random numbers.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's some statistics principle about how, like, 5% of people are just fucking around in every survey and will choose absurd answers for fun. I don't remember what it was called though. Big foot's constant? Moon landing principle? Something like that.

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Lizardman constant.

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

There's also web crawlers and survey farms that can (in)advertantly influence results.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Running out of countries to sacrifice so you gotta make more... wait that was just the British empire... Edit Oops meant to reply to @WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net