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Funny anecdata: in my circle of friends, the trait that best predicts Set skill isn't IQ or gender or anything like that, it's musical ability. This came up at
by mundo 10y ago
Funny anecdata: in my circle of friends, the trait that best predicts Set skill isn't IQ or gender or anything like that, it's musical ability.
This came up at a party. Six people playing Set, all of us from different cities, and the three that took band in high school utterly dominated the three that didn't. The reason? Field trips. The Band kids had all played Set for hours on buses, the rest of us had only played it once or twice and lost interest.
- function_seven 10y agoI like how you introduce a correlating attribute in the beginning of your comment, get me thinking about the relationship between musical ability and set-identifying ability, then clobber whatever hypothesis I was putting together just as fast with the confounding "field trips" variable. Nice work :)
- tamana 10y agoBut why is set so popular on band trips, but not football trips?
- kragen 10y agoBand nerds aren't retards.
- function_seven 10y agoI'd guess that the players on a football team would be reviewing the playbook all the way up until kickoff. Meanwhile the band isn't going to be practicing their performance on the bus.
- mundo 10y agoThank you! I should be writing clickbait headlines. "Will this STUNNING mathematical breakthrough in a children's card game finally make Kim leave Kanye?"