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In my "who do you know" survey, I instructed ppl to answer "potatoes" for the question "what is your favorite fruit"? This was hidden in the list of instructions for the survey, to check if people read it. What % of people who took the survey do you predict input 'potato'?

0-25%
54.5%
25-50%
29.3%
50-75%
13.1%
75-100%
3.1%

2,437 votesFinal results

3:24 AM · Nov 1, 2020

Lucas Ghallagher

@LucasGhallagher

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Harvaticus Gogglemeister IX

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The % was likely closer to 0 than to 25. Nobody reads directions.

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I was definitely surprised by the sheer amount of people who did not read the instructions.

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In the results that I could see, it was 7 in 107

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observed idiocy

@observedidiocy

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businessinsider.com

There's a brilliant reason why Van Halen asked for a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown candies...

It wasn't because they were a bunch of a**holes.

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You get what you pay for with survey responses

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Probably 0-25%. I admit that I didn't fully read the instructions the first time, but I've taken enough surveys on MTurk to know something was up when I got to that question. So I went back up, read again, and then answered correctly.

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