False as likely as True - true or false?

[swee'pea99]

False, apparently.

According to nice Mr Fry on QI, a massive academic study found that in True or False quizzes, Trues tended to outnumber Falses - and by a significant margin - something like 54% v 46%.

So if answer 3 was True, answer to #4 is probably also True, true?

Nope, false again. Because the same study found there's an even stronger correlation with alternation - ie, if #3 was True, there's a 58%/42% chance that the following answer will be False.

So, as nice Mr Fry concluded, if you find yourself faced with a True/False test, your best route to the best possible score, statistically speaking, is three-fold:

1. Answer all the questions you're sure of.
2. Give the opposite answer for all adjacent questions
3. Answer 'True' for any that remain

Well...I thought it was Quite Interesting.

 

[Over The Hill]

You were paying more attention than me.

I am treasuring the last of the Fry QIs before Blandly Toxic takes over.

 

[Tin Pot]

Ah, he also said that amnesia, forgetting ones past life through a head injury, doesn't exist - which is not true.

My faith in QI has been rocked.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Anyone know the tripple point of water?

Dara O'B does... or did.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Anyone know the tripple point of water?

Dara O'B does... or did.

Wot's the point of water in your tipple? Drink it neat say I

 

[Drago]

Can't believe you watch that pompous fat narcissus.

 

[Profpointy]

Can't believe you watch that pompous fat narcissus.

yebbut he's a very entertaining, witty and erudite pompous fat narcissus