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Obvious point : The only people interested in finding out their scores will be the kind of people who think their vocab is something worth competing on. There'
by mdda 15y ago
Obvious point : The only people interested in finding out their scores will be the kind of people who think their vocab is something worth competing on. There's no way this is a fair sample across all English-speakers.
- dorian-graph 15y agoI wouldn't say the ONLY people. This could be the next 'IQ test' where it seems the near opposite, the lesser intelligent ones are who are obsessed with them. Going by magazines, common forwards and so on it seems the average man loves a good self-quiz.
- mdda 15y agoBut to remove some of the bias, we'd need approximately equal numbers of above and below average people to be going to the trouble of answering the quiz. And in the back of my mind, I thought that the bulk of quiz magazines were sold to women, no? (Though I'm probably being too pedantic...)
- meric 15y agoIt could be only either very below average and very above average people are interested in self-quizzes, too, so equal numbers alone won't be enough.