McD5 Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 I have honed my 18 years of ability to read the minds of the general poplulation in the stock market, and have brought it to other applications. I don't want to sound ****y, but I believe I am onto something. http://www.regiftable.com/RegiftingRobinPopUp.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacky McSlackAss Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 And cracked. Wont spoil the secret for others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Ah, I've seen that trick before lol :yes:...kinda easy to figure out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 well its obvious how it works. edit: ninja texted the explanation. say your one digit number is xy where x is the first digit and y is any other digit. the resulting number will always be 9x. every item that is a solution for 9x (9, 18, 27, 36...) has the same gift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacky McSlackAss Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 well its obvious how it works. Way to ruin it for everyone jerk. Nah, I learned this trick in my Differential Equations class. I love that class, boring at times but you learn alot of cool stuff in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Way to ruin it for everyone jerk.Nah, I learned this trick in my Differential Equations class. I love that class, boring at times but you learn alot of cool stuff in it. I didn't even apply real math to it until I figured it out. I suppose if I wanted to get more mathematical without jumping around: You are really being asked to pick two one-digit numbers, x and y. to take those numbers to get the two digit number of that, take 10x + y = z then they want you to subtract x and y from z, z-x-y=w. substitute 10x + y for z and you get 10x + y - x - y = w. y cancels and you're left with 9x = w. hooray, I solved it without any non-algebraic means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Had a friend tell me that when he was in college, some class (psychology?) sent their students out to conduct a survey. To take the survey, they showed the subject a card which read "Pick a number between 1 and 4". After waiting a while, they'd turn the card over, and the other side read "Why did you pick 3"? The significance of the experiment is that when you ask a sample of people to pick a number between 1 and 4, people will tend to avoid the extremes (thus tending not to pick 1 or 4), and will tend to pick a number that's "above average". Supposedly, if you ask a large sample to pick a number between 1 and 4, somewhat over 3/4th of them will pick 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McD5 Posted February 13, 2009 Author Share Posted February 13, 2009 Geez this is a rough crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tryfuhl Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 sounds great.. if someone knows before you do, they're not really reading your mind are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfitzo53 Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Had a friend tell me that when he was in college, some class (psychology?) sent their students out to conduct a survey. To take the survey, they showed the subject a card which read "Pick a number between 1 and 4". After waiting a while, they'd turn the card over, and the other side read "Why did you pick 3"? The significance of the experiment is that when you ask a sample of people to pick a number between 1 and 4, people will tend to avoid the extremes (thus tending not to pick 1 or 4), and will tend to pick a number that's "above average". Supposedly, if you ask a large sample to pick a number between 1 and 4, somewhat over 3/4th of them will pick 3. That's why C was for a long time the multiple choice answer that had the greatest statistical chance of being correct. Testing companies have been aware of that trend for a while now, and I'm not sure it's still true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjah Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Nah, I learned this trick in my Differential Equations class. I love that class, boring at times but you learn alot of cool stuff in it. Not sure why they'd teach that in DiffEq. It's just arithmetic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacky McSlackAss Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Not sure why they'd teach that in DiffEq. It's just arithmetic! My professor likes to go away from the topic at times and show us interesting math tricks. He also puts riddles on the board for us to solve and stuff like that. I know it has nothing to do with Diff Eq at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighOnHendrix Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Had a friend tell me that when he was in college, some class (psychology?) sent their students out to conduct a survey. To take the survey, they showed the subject a card which read "Pick a number between 1 and 4". After waiting a while, they'd turn the card over, and the other side read "Why did you pick 3"? The significance of the experiment is that when you ask a sample of people to pick a number between 1 and 4, people will tend to avoid the extremes (thus tending not to pick 1 or 4), and will tend to pick a number that's "above average". Supposedly, if you ask a large sample to pick a number between 1 and 4, somewhat over 3/4th of them will pick 3. And hence, one of the things "psychics" and "fortune-tellers" use to trick...er, read your mind! Yeah, that's it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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