Birthday paradox, 8^8, etc.

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(05-18-2015 02:39 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  I kind of figured the data would be far from a random distribution.

That would be my guess as well. Unfortunately I am not allowed to read the eight questions ("Sorry 8^8 is not yet available in your country at this time. Hopefully a translated version will be available soon." - what nonsense! I don't need a translated version...). I suspect that the eight possible answers will not be randomly distributed, but weighted by to the cultural context - only people from the US seem to be allowed to take the test. So for each question there will be two or maybe three answers getting the majority of clicks. This effectively reduces the 8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8 combinations to something like 2x3x2x3x2x3x2x3.

Regards
Max