are you in the 2% or the 98% try this test

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Originally Posted by shadowfox

Okay I googled it and found out the trick. It's pretty common sense I guess. Btw, how many of you guys actually did all the calculations? I know I didn't.
Read on to know the trick. I'm too lazy to put it in my own words. This is from some dude on the sciscoop boards:

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It's a very simple trick (4.00 / 1) (#16)
by jdoe on Mon Oct 27th, 2003 at 10:30:52 PM PST
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This is actually a very simple trick often used to defraud investors in the stock market.

Hammer is a most commonly used tool. Google count for the word hammer is about 3 million as opposed to 0.5 million for the wrench and screwdriver. Red is the most commonly referred color (google about 60M compare to 40M for blue or green). It means a large chunk of population, something like 30% (not 98%) is going to choose the "red hammer" simply because it's the most common combination. Some large number is going to choose just red or just hammer, getting a "close" answer. Those who guess correctly, forward the message, those who don't discard it. Thus, then you get the message it has a long history of "right" guesses making you believe that there is something to it. But in reality is just a rule of big numbers.

A message constructed for a "violet allen key" would be a lot more interesting, but it's not possible.

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hey shadowfox - thanks for doing the legwork on this as i was obviously much too lazy! :p

i said blu hammer, so i guess that puts me in the 2% reigion

red hammer

hmmmm...... I think I did it wrong cause I said....

Blue bong

I thought of a red tractor.

I was distracted by the falling snow and was thinking about all the little lambs that are just about to enter this world, maybe that's where the Tractor came from.