🧵 Psychology and numbers
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Apr 2024 22:02:17 UTC No. 16111219
This was a poll where you were supposed to vote the number that has the least number of votes (you could only see the votes after you voted). It got nearly a thousand votes overall.
What is interesting is that 17 was the most voted one. So most people thought that 17 would actually be the least voted number. Another weirdness is that there is such a large difference between the numbers one and two. Also, you could have been close to picking the real least voted number by picking any one of the small even numbers.
What causes these results scientifically speaking?
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Apr 2024 22:40:53 UTC No. 16111276
>>16111219
What's your hypothesis for the psychological mechanism behind the results, anon?
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Apr 2024 22:42:17 UTC No. 16111279
>>16111276
not OP but people think people hate 17
Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 00:09:21 UTC No. 16111365
>>16111276
Well, my first thought was that people might think that the small even numbers (2, 4, 6, 8) are very mundane and common, so that's why they might get a lot of votes. So by choosing the number which has the least votes, you should avoid picking those numbers. So when everyone avoids them, they actually end up being the least voted numbers.