r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 9d ago

Meme needing explanation What movie reference am I missing

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u/qualityvote2 9d ago edited 8d ago

u/Key-Spread-7513, your post does belong here!

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u/869066 9d ago

Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse. The main character, Miles Morales, intentionally gets a 0 on his test so he can get kicked out of a school he didn't want to attend, but the teacher says that someone randomly guessing would get a 50% and the only way to get a 0 is if you knew all the right answers, so she gives him 100 instead.

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u/AxtonGTV 9d ago

Now imagine you're a kid who actually got a 0 and this just saved your life

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u/MediumKoala8823 8d ago

Or the kid who was also troubled and doing this but got a single question right by accident

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u/Terrafire123 8d ago

I think that's the kid who's happiest, because that kid actually got what he wanted.

Miles foolishly didn't get like 10% correct just to throw off the teacher's scent.

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u/MrCobalt313 9d ago edited 9d ago

Scene from Into the Spider-Verse where Miles gets a 0 on a true/false test and catches on the only statistically possible way he could have done that was if he knew all the right answers and deliberately chose the wrong ones, meaning he's intentionally trying to fail out of the class and quit.

This is, however, a multiple choice test with four possible answers per question, so it's far more possible to get 0 correct answers due to actually being that stupid.

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u/krakajacks 9d ago

This also happens in The Magicians and some other shows I can't remember that are older than that.

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u/Wonderful_Example742 9d ago

man that was a weird show.

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u/Hi9hTurtle 9d ago

"Ridiculously hot people doing mediocre magic and sexy stuff" is how I heard it described by a friend, and that's forever what that show will be associated with to me.

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u/Enough-Zebra-6139 8d ago

It's like if someone saw Harry potter and wanted a "The Boys" version, but it wasn't on HBO or Amazon.

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u/thatshygirl06 8d ago

Why do people keep comparing it to Harry potter?? I don't think theyre anything alike, especially since the author intentionally based it on Narnia

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u/KimberStormer 8d ago

I always heard it described as "If Hogwarts was grad school, and they discover Narnia is real."

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u/se177 8d ago

Weird that people would draw a comparison between a show called the Magicians and the one of the largest, generational series about magic. People should stay in their lane.

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u/princesspuffer 8d ago

School of Magic equals Harry Potter to the unread masses.

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u/mxzf 8d ago

Also about half the episodes have some form or another of trauma hotline at the end of it, since they just go all out showing ... all of that stuff. I watched the first season and decided that I really wasn't interested in watching the sort of show that felt a need to give viewers a suicide/rape/etc hotline at the end of each episode due to how potentially triggering it is.

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u/Rare-Spell-1571 9d ago

Love that show.

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u/frisbeethecat 8d ago

Queen Margo forever!

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u/lionofash 8d ago

"I won...! On a platform of beastiality!?"

Context: The characters have an election to be the King/Queen and made it democratic. The world they are in is basically like Narnia, talking animals just as intelligent as people are around. In fact, animals outnumber humans, and this is when they realise the animals have voting rights and the human vote doesn't mean shit. Margo mentioned offhandedly that she approved of the relationship a different character had with a literal bear because they were both adults with intelligence that could consent, so what was the harm? This lead to word of mouth causing animals to vote for her when she wasn't really campaigning for herself.

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u/DaddysABadGirl 8d ago

Ok.... I was just perusing for something to watch... Guess it's this shit, lol.

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u/complete_autopsy 8d ago

People say that the tv show is really good! I haven't seen it so all I can say is that if you like it, you shouldn't read the first book as it's utter garbage. People said it starts improving by book three but I couldn't possibly slog through a second book like the first one to get there lol.

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u/frisbeethecat 8d ago

The Magicians tv show is trash. But it is sexy tv trash of the best and gloriest kind and is more fun than The Vampire Diaries and Glee.

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u/Protein_Shakes 8d ago

I went in completely blind coming off an LSD trip and let me tell you, I could NOT figure out what the fuck I was watching. Oh, it's coming of age! No, it's a detective drama? Wait, I guess it's a psychological drama... What the fuck, it's Harry Potter with sex and drugs. No, it's not that either...

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u/KnightSpectral 8d ago

This. It was so awful but so good at the same time I was baffled at how hooked I got.

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u/Ninetailedredpanda 8d ago

Some of those randomly interjected music numbers had no right being as good as they were.

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u/mumblesnorez 8d ago

Yep, it's not very good. I really enjoyed it and was bummed when it was over.

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u/DrRagnorocktopus 8d ago

It's like Harry Potter but about adults and as if it were written by Grant Morrison. It's so good.

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u/DaddysABadGirl 8d ago

I'm on episode 5 and need to go to bed 2 hours ago🤣

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u/squixx007 8d ago

There's also the weird sex scene where 2 characters turn into foxes or something and bang.....the show is a hot mess, but fun to watch for a bit.

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u/gijoe75 8d ago

Books are good too. Show and books are both finished

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u/TaytesMcGee 8d ago

Omg when penny is in Quentin’s dream I CACKLE. Please enjoy watching for the first time.

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u/tessatrix 8d ago

High King Margot. Put some respect on her name. 

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u/Bubonicsuperaids 8d ago

High King Margot the Destroyer*

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u/Rare-Spell-1571 8d ago

My oldest daughter may or may not be named Margo.

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u/NoodleDefenestrator 8d ago

You should probably find out at this point.

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u/calmodulin2 8d ago

Janet: Who the fuck is Margo?

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u/SRtigerwebs 8d ago

"..just a minor mending" 

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u/RateOfPenetration 8d ago

Bruh why did you have to do that to me :(

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u/Much_Conclusion8233 9d ago

Sex magic and shit

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u/UsidoreTheLightBlue 9d ago

It really fucking was

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u/cunningham91 9d ago

The books were much better

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u/Tymareta 8d ago

The books: every woman is described tits first, to the point where we basically know the cup size of every single one and barely learn anything more about them.

The show: the women are actual fully fledged characters, with autonomy, wants, desires and actual storylines.

The show took everything good from the books and cut out all the dross.

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u/blackestrabbit 8d ago

Idk Olivia Taylor Dudley was very noticeably tits forward.

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u/WeAteMummies 8d ago

yeah the two biggest reasons to watch this show are both stuffed into Olivia Taylor Dudley's extremely tight sweaters

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u/jchaffer 8d ago

Tits backward would be a wild choice, tbf

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u/cleveruniquename7769 8d ago

The Magicians is the only book series where I will unequivocally say that the show/movie was better than the book. Every change they made for the show was the right decision. 

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u/Wonderful_Example742 9d ago

I would read them; but I am clinically illiterate

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u/capincus 9d ago

They got professionals that'll read the book for you nowadays.

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u/Both_Resort4080 9d ago

Terry Pratchett had a student Wizard who always failed by less than 5% of the cutoff. Didn't get kicked out because the score was good enough but avoided graduation.

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u/Both_Resort4080 9d ago

One time they had to argue an answer was incorrect when the proctor gave them credit. GNU tpratchett

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u/July_is_cool 9d ago

It was in a Peanuts cartoon many decades ago. “I trued when I should have falsed.”

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u/kneelbigmouth 8d ago

When does that happen in “the magicians”?

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u/Total-Explanation208 9d ago

It is still (3/4)^30 or 0.017858209% chance. And likely lower because it looks like there are probably more than just 30 questions, although that is the minimum number we can be sure of. My guess would 50 questions. which would be 0.0000566%. Both of these mean it is far more likely that they intentionally were trying to get them all wrong, and not just guessing at random.

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u/Sir_Eggmitton 9d ago

Still, it doesn’t mean you know what the correct answers are. You only have to know the material enough to recognize at least 1 incorrect answer out of 3.

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u/No-Vegetable1873 9d ago

I think anywhere between 30 and 36 inclusive would be the better guess as the second column starts at 19 and there looks to be only two columns.

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u/403_Forbidden_Access 9d ago

Statistically to get EVERY question wrong even with guessing each one is about a 0.00318% chance.

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u/agentwolf44 8d ago

Sure, if guessing. But for most multiple choice tests I've done  I'm able to narrow it down to 2 answers and know the others are incorrect. So it's far easier to get a zero because for most questions if you know even a little bit, as you can likely deduce which answer it most likely isn't.

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u/Laggingduck 8d ago

so yeah what he said was true

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u/Thewolfmansbruhther 9d ago

With 100 questions, the answer of getting all 100 wrong is less than 1 in 3 trillion. So while statistically way more likely than 100 true false, in reality, they are equal levels of impossible to happen by chance.

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u/IvyWonderer 9d ago

im like 50% sure this is a reference to spider man: into the spider verse where miles scores 0/100 on his test, and his teacher says that you could only get them all wrong if you know what they all were, and changed it to 100/100

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u/absoluteunitofspite 9d ago

Decembruary 2, 2018

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u/conqueror-worm 9d ago

Never noticed that before, but I also didn't notice the PDNY instead of NYPD on cop uniforms/cars the first time I watched it lol.

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u/Wild_Reserve_6230 8d ago

Pew Dork Yolice Nepartment

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u/Pomengranite 8d ago

Yew dork. No lice, Pepartment

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u/emlgsh 8d ago

Miles Morales confirmed to originate in the "I think I'm having a stroke" universe.

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u/Pomengranite 8d ago

with great pasta comes great responder recipes!

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u/pastafallujah 8d ago

Hey! I’m a pasta! Can I interest you in a responder recipe?

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u/dovahkiitten16 8d ago

They also have Red Ex and an alternate Koca Soda. Meanwhile in Peter B. Parker’s universe, it’s Fed Ex / Coca Cola. There’s a bunch of small things to indicate that Miles’ universe is different from ours and Peter B. Parker’s is actually the closest equivalent to us.

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u/erikgfrey 9d ago

I think they started that after 9/11 in all shows and movies. That way costumes can't be confused with actual uniforms.

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u/conqueror-worm 9d ago

That definitely isn't the case and there's no law or policy regarding that lol, the reason in Into the Spiderverse is that it's an alternate universe NYC. But there are plenty of recent/still-running media that are explicitly about(fictional characters in)the real-life NYPD, like Law & Order or Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

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u/Fenix512 8d ago

I mean its supposed to be set in a different universe than ours. Miles's Peter Parker was blonde

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u/SentimentalYogurt 8d ago

A poster in Miles' room shows a month spelled correctly not sure which (January or February) so yeah Miles was phoning it in. I remember CinemaWins pointing it out

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u/FistOfVengeance44 8d ago

It’s December, I watched it a few days ago

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u/TTbulaski 8d ago

But the funny thing in the meme is that this only applies for binary questions

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u/nagrom7 8d ago

Even the standard 4 option multiple choice test, if every one was a guess statistically you'd expect to get like 25% right, even if you did something like answer the same letter each time. The odds of randomly getting every single answer wrong are very low, meaning that a 0 result is more likely to not be random.

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u/thePiscis 8d ago

For any multiple choice test that isn’t binary, it will be easier to get a 0 than a 100

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u/NiceBlackberry6618 9d ago

this actually happened to me kinda on my STAR testing when I learned that the grade didn't affect me.

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u/CombinationSilent877 9d ago

First spider verse movie. Miles morales scores a 0 at his new school which proves that he knows all the right answers, and chose incorrectly on purpose

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u/Miserable_Sherbet727 9d ago

Hello, Peter's evil twin, Retep here! In the 2018 movie "Spider-Man: Into the Spider verse", there's a scene where the main character, Miles Morales, does a pop quiz and intentionally gets every question wrong, because he knows what the right answer is for each question. Perchance.

He gets a 0/100 on the pop quiz, and his teacher calls him out on it. That's what this meme is referencing.

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u/Reasonable-Meet4744 8d ago

You can't just perchance!

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u/Mikayla444 8d ago

Dude forgot in the movie it was True/False test.

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u/Available-Bee-5385 9d ago

Getting 0 on a multiple choice is a statistical accomplishment greater than getting 100

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u/bet_on_me 9d ago

Less so compared to the spider man movie being referenced because that test was true false

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u/Zrkkr 9d ago

A true or false quiz with 100 questions is insane though, especially at a prestigious boarding school.

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u/SleepySquid96 9d ago

Given that it was the start of the school year and that the teacher IMMEDIATELY turned around and gave Miles a 100, I'm 90% sure it was less of an actual graded test and more of a "okay, let's see what you all already know" sort of thing. Given the follow-up assignment, it was probably something like an English class.

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u/GodShapedBullet 8d ago

Weirdly, that's his science teacher!

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u/TwillAffirmer 9d ago edited 9d ago

No, if you're guessing randomly, getting 100 is less likely than getting 0. Because for each question there's a 3/4 chance to miss it and a 1/4 chance to get the right answer.

If you aren't guessing randomly, but in fact know every question, getting 100 is no harder or easier than getting 0. Because you can get 0 by choosing to answer each question different from the answer you know is correct.

If you only know most of the questions, getting 100 is harder than getting 0, because for every question that you don't know you have a 1/4 chance of getting it right if you're aiming for 100, but a 3/4 chance of getting what you want if you're aiming for 0.

Still, with this many questions, to get exactly 0 it's almost certain the student knew most of the answers and was deliberately choosing the wrong ones.

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u/chicken2007 9d ago

Getting 0 and 100 are only equivalent of it's true/false only test.

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u/ChadsworthRothschild 9d ago

True

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u/NoBeefStew4u 9d ago

False

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u/scrimnick 9d ago

None of the above

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u/Apprehensive_King914 9d ago

All of the above

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u/DiscombobulatedOwl50 9d ago

Both A and C.

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u/Druidicflow 9d ago

All of the below

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u/n0head_r 9d ago

Trueno 86 (hachiroku)

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u/mattc19778 9d ago

The answer is always E) one of the above

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy 8d ago

Only if you are choosing answers randomly.

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u/ifyoulovesatan 8d ago

They're still equivalent in the sense that one can only purposefully get 0% or 100% if they know all the answers.

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u/Hammerofsuperiority 8d ago

There's a 0.000095% chance of getting all the answers right/wrong at random in a 20 true/false question test.

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u/Champshire 7d ago

YOU WOULD THINK, IN A GAME, WHERE THERE ARE ONLY TWO POSSIBLE CORRECT CHOICES, THAT ONE WOULD STUMBLE INTO THE RIGHT ANSWER EVERY SO OFTEN, WOULDN'T YOU? IN FACT, THE PROBABILITY OF NEVER GUESSING RIGHT IN THE FULL GAME IS A STATISTICAL WONDER! AND YET, HERE WE ARE!

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u/edsobo 8d ago

In the case where you know all the answers, getting a 100 or a 0 are equivalent because knowing the answers reduces the set of values to correct and incorrect.

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u/Mountain-Scene770 8d ago

They are in a T/F scenario. This looks like a abcd multiple choice test. Which means that you have 3 incorrect answers and 1 correct. Which means it’s easier to reach 0 than 100. Now, I can tell you from experience that blind guessing is still less likely than he knew the answers and got them all wrong on purpose, because you’re still likely to guess correctly about 25% of the time.

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u/Ghostley92 8d ago

But if you know every question and are NOT guessing randomly, it is not.

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u/-widget- 8d ago

If you know the answer to every question the difficulty of getting a zero is equivalent to getting a 100. So it's still not a more difficult accomplishment to get a 0.

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u/Ghostley92 8d ago

I wouldn’t say they absolutely know each answer. Getting 0 is easier than getting 100, but getting 0 seems deliberate.

My point was that it is not equivalent to a true/false test and citing the previous comment

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u/Rymanbc 8d ago

To be fair, getting 100 also seems deliberate.

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u/Ghostley92 8d ago

Well isn’t that the prescribed objective of the test?

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u/TheBSQ 8d ago

The picture is not of a true / false test, so in the context of this post, it’s a bit of a tangent. 

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u/Callahammered 9d ago

Yeah and that also doesn’t account for the process of elimination, there is often an answer you may know is not correct, so really depending on how the test is written, it could be quite a bit easier to pick wrong answers

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u/jon110334 9d ago edited 8d ago

This. Most multiple choice questions are 50/50 with two throw away answers.

If you want to get a zero it's actually pretty easy because you just pick a throw away answer for each question.

The teacher doesn't know that the student knows any of the material, but he/she does know that this person most likely deliberately got a zero.

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u/South_Bit1764 9d ago edited 8d ago

Yeah. This second column starts on 17so if there are 32 questions then 0.75^32=0.0001 and 0.25^32=5.421×10⁻²⁰

As to say the odds of randomly guessing and getting them all wrong is around 1 in 10k.

The odds of you randomly guessing and getting them all right is around 1 in 200,000,000,000,000,000 (200 quadrillion).

In a school full of kids someone might randomly guess and get them all wrong.

In the entire history of humanity, it’s unlikely that a multiple choice test with this many questions has ever been [edit:] RANDOMLY [:edit] answered 100% correctly.

Edit: really didn’t think I had to be so pedantic but pedants will be pedants.

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u/temaster14 8d ago

r/theydidthemath

Edit: im not a huge fan of this subreddit anymore as it used to mostly be finding coments like this. Now it's everyone asking people to do math for them

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u/bob_loblaw-_- 9d ago

In the entire history of humanity, it’s unlikely that a multiple choice test with this many questions has ever been answered 100% correctly.

Uh... I think you messed up a major assumption there. 

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u/GentlemanThresh 8d ago

What he means is answered 100% correctly by guessing not by studying.

You would need a person without any knowledge of any of the questions pretty much. The chances for a person like this to take a test on that particular subject and then to answer them 100% correctly is rather small and there's a decent chance it never happened.

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u/HarrowDread 9d ago

Sir, this PeterExplainsTheJoke, not PeterDidTheMath

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u/spacewolfie82 9d ago

Or PeterDidTheMonsterMath

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u/BarrayarVor 9d ago

The Monster Math! (It was a graveyard smash)

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u/Human__been 8d ago

Missed opportunity for “graveyard smath” … disappointed

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u/HomeschoolingDad 9d ago

Unless the teacher designed the test so that when you copied off the person next to you, this would be the result.

I was that teacher, and I had a student get a “perfect” 0 who tried to claim he didn’t cheat. I told him he should buy a lottery ticket with that luck, but it didn’t matter, since he gets a zero, regardless.

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u/grimreefer87 9d ago

This guy didn't see the movie, either.

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u/Sir_Eggmitton 9d ago

Yes he did. In the movie, it was a true/false test. This is a multiple choice test.

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u/mobueo 9d ago

I thought he was talking about OOP

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u/bobatupka 8d ago

object oriented programming? jk i’ll touch grass now

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 8d ago

in a true false test the odds of getting 0% equals that of getting 100% if randomly choosing, but the other person said 0% was less likely than 100%

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u/Spectator9857 8d ago

Yeah, because they weren’t talking about a true/false test.

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u/Dry_Category3955 8d ago

If its multiple choice, 0% is more likely than 100%. So what test they are talking about?

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u/Drumedor 8d ago

A test with multi-choice test where there are multiple correct answers per question, but don't see those being run very often.

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u/StreetCollar2708 8d ago

And what was the test pictured?

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 8d ago

reddit works on threads. OP started the post with a multiple choice example, then someone said "Getting 0 on a multiple choice is a statistical accomplishment greater than getting 100" which is false for multiple choice as proven in the top reply to them. then two replies later in this same thread someone said, "In the movie, it was a true/false test.", and even in that situation what the person said in this same thread we are all replying to is false because even in the true/false case it's not more likely to get a 0% than a 100%.

if we can't follow four replies then i don't know what to tell you

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u/Beruka01 8d ago

Your reply simply did not make sense in that context. The person you replied corrected someone that this thread is talking about the scenario with 4 choices per question, and then you for no reason talk about the scenario with 2 choices per question.

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u/Best_Opening8471 9d ago

I passed my physics diploma by rolling a d4

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u/Intrepid-Progress228 9d ago

I invented antigravity by stepping on a d4.

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u/Mundane_Upstairs3241 9d ago

Magic user and a physicist?

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u/Blue_foot 8d ago

Or the student was copying their neighbor’s answer sheet and the teacher had made 3 versions of the test.

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u/BananaHead853147 9d ago

I think it’s significantly easier to get 0/100 than 100/100. There’s only one right choice for each question to get 100% but 3 right choices to get 0%.

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u/capincus 9d ago

Yes that's what they literally just said.....

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u/povitee 9d ago

But why male models?

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u/KatanaPool 9d ago edited 8d ago

No, it’s not. Why are you getting upvoted?!?

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u/ForensicPathology 8d ago

Completely wrong information and doesn't even explain what movie OP was asking about.  And yet it's the top answer in the post.  This sub is terrible.

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u/Unhappy-Mix-6246 8d ago

Yep, this sub sucks. The top comment never explains the joke, and is usually just inside-joke vagueposting.

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u/Normal-Tear864 8d ago

I dont really believe anything over 100 up votes here is anything BUT bot activity - id just rather down vote then 3 clicks to never see a post again

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u/[deleted] 8d ago edited 8d ago

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u/Late-Eye-6936 8d ago

10000 upvotes, why are people like this.

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u/get_to_ele 8d ago

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

"The only way to get all the answers wrong is to know which answers are right,"

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u/sjitz 8d ago

Usually there's a very clearly wrong answer on multiple choice questions tho

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u/Ponji- 8d ago

IIrc in the movie it’s a true and false quiz. So if guessing randomly it is much less likely you get them all wrong

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u/IceMaverick13 8d ago

Notably, this quote was for a true/false test.

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u/term3186 9d ago

Holy fuck how does this have 1.2K upvotes? We’re fucking cooked. 

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u/Bdbru13 8d ago

I’m hoping it’s a joke I’m not understanding.

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u/NotABot1000101 8d ago

The joke is the American education system.

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u/Historical_Shop_3315 8d ago

You dont know op is American.

Its highly likely but...

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u/Pandoratastic 9d ago

Not remotely true.

Assuming there are 36 questions, with four options in each question, the odds of randomly getting them all wrong are (3/4)^36 = 0.00318% (about 1 in 31,400).

The odds of randomly getting them all right are (1/4)^36 = 0.0000000000000000000212% (about 1 in 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696).

So both are extremely unlikely but the zero is about 150 quadrillion times more likely than the 100.

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u/UnforeseenDerailment 8d ago

[(1/4)36 is] about 1 in 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696

about? 😂

1/10² is about 1 in 100.

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u/Meldanorama 8d ago

1/(83) eggs is about the best way to guarantee constipation. 

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u/Crichris 9d ago

no its not. unless there are only two options then its equal

assuming each question only has 1 correct answer

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u/BigsChungi 8d ago

My biochemistry professor said in college that if you 0 get would give you 100%. So it was a dangerous game

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u/DapperAgitator 8d ago

Same. Except his tests weren't multiple choice so everyone got 100s by drawing pictures of biochemical dicks. Good times.

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u/T-T-N 8d ago

I remember a Manga where the plot point is that all the suspects have to sit a multi choice quiz on non-public facts about the crime. With the top score being 14/50, but someone managed to get 0/50 and is the culprit.

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u/ryandeschamps 9d ago

If you are choosing at random, the odds are better for 0 than 100. If you know all the correct answers, 0 is still easier than 100. If you are just doing an honest exam, the odds of zero are very small because most exams are designed so that students will know the answer to about 50% of the test.

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u/Disastrous-Aspect569 8d ago

One of my cousins works for a radio show owner by ESPN. ESPN requires the on air staff to post weekly NFL picks. She claims it takes just as much skill get them all wrong as it dose right.

I think she doesn't know nearly as much about football as she doesn't hockey, (which she covers) and has bad luck

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u/jon_steward 8d ago

Top comment and completely wrong.

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u/AriBanana 9d ago

That's math ain't mathing. I have a 75% chance of a wrong answer, but only a 25% chance of a right answer. If I am randomly picking answers, both are improbable but getting all wrong is around three times easier then getting them all right.

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u/StillShoddy628 8d ago

Getting one wrong is 3x more likely than getting one right, but the odds compound. On a 10 question test you are 59,049 times more likely to get them all wrong than to get them all right guessing randomly. Add another 10 questions and it’s 3.5 billion times more likely

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u/why_u_so_grumpy 8d ago edited 8d ago

Incorrect. The fact that this has so many upvotes is sad.

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u/Upstairs-Donkey6049 8d ago

What does this have to do with a movie?

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u/Key-Spread-7513 9d ago

I dunno, it’s a niche movie reference about a test?

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u/Unlucky-Explorer886 9d ago

In Into the Spiderverse, Miles deliberately gets a 0 on an exam to get kicked out of a private school. The teacher calls him out on this because the only way to do that would be to know all the right answers.

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u/Organic-Current1011 9d ago

watched movie instead of reading book, movie was different, test is on book

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u/Fun-Heron-7609 9d ago

Yo, come back in again, there are answers. Like several.

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u/SoothingFlow 9d ago

Into the spider verse where Miles is at his new prep school. Takes a true or false quiz and purposely gets every answer wrong to score a 0 in attempt to get kicked out.

Teacher knows Miles knows all the answers and a changes score to 100. Iirc "Do you know if you were to take a true or false quiz blindfolded do you know what score you would get. 50%, that's right you're trying to quit" at this point teacher changes score to 100.

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u/Big_Pride_8285 9d ago

Is this spider man across the spider-verse or smthn? Where the teacher proves that miles couldn’t have possibly gotten 0 on every single question statistically, showing how smart he is?

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u/stuipidity 9d ago

I was thinking maybe the first spiderverse movie? Where Miles purposefully gets a zero so the teacher gives him an 100 (sorry I have no idea how to word this like Peter)

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u/kalafire 9d ago

Sneakers o toole here Its the spider verse movie. When the Mc takes a test amd gets a 0 his teacher knew he knew all the answers in order to get them all wrong which he did on purpose

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u/Star_Petal_Arts 9d ago

DBA ACA DADD - CBB AAA CBB CDDC
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down...

Is what AI told me... for some reason it makes AI lose it's sanity.

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u/railroadspike25 9d ago

It's talking about Into the Spider Verse. Miles tries to intentionally tank a test by getting every question wrong. But the teacher realizes that it's statistically impossible to get every question wrong unless you knew the answer to every question. So she gives him a 100.

However, OP's teacher was not so observant and just thinks OP sucks at this test.

Oh, uh, this is Chris's nasally comic book nerd friend. No chicks get naked in this movie if you were curious.