Re: BrainBashers Common Answers November 2003: Results.

"Baz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Other answers are not so obvious, though. For the question 'Name part
> of the face', I answered 'Nose', which was indeed the top answer with
> almost 67% of the votes. Even now I'm not sure why I picked 'Nose'
> (pardon the pun :-) over, say, 'Eyes' or 'Mouth'. It seemed like a
> even call between those answers at the time, but for some reason I
> selected the same answer as 67% of everyone else. I wonder why that
> is? Did everyone else just pick this answer on a hunch? Or did they
> actually believe that 'Nose' was more likely to appear than 'Eyes' or
> 'Mouth'?

For me, 'Nose' was an obvious answer because a) the question asked for a
singular 'part' of the face, which pushes towards an answer other than
'eyes', and of course 'an eye' was never a likely answer, b) the mouth is a
hole rather than a 'part', (likewise, pardon the pun), which again mitigates
against it and towards the nose, and c) the nose is roughly in the middle.

The ones which tend to surprise me most are things like 'name a sign of the
Zodiac', which you would expect to have a fairly even range, and yet last
time there was a clear winner. (IIRC, it wasn't even the current sign).
Similarly for 'name a day of the week' and so on.

Danny