1,204,986 Votes Decided: What Is The Best Thing?
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Publicado 2020-09-07
Thanks to Graham Haerther for the main audio mix, and for recovering the terrible sound in my echo-filled flat!
(For the folks asking: I'm not planning to release the ranked list -- partly because "ranked list of major world religions" sounds like the sort of thing that'll cause trouble, and partly because I can't guarantee there aren't some other nasty things still in the list. Apologies!)
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Every Thing
04:35 How To Rank Everything
05:45 What Is The Best Thing?
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Todos los comentarios (21)
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Thanks to all the people who voted! The results were definitely not what I'd have predicted.
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Wait did I just get tricked into watching a Top 10 video?
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Space 80% - Time 80% Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
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hearing things like orgasms being number 69, sleeping being the best, and tom's hold on the bi community make me love the internet
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I LOVE that Space and Time got the exact same number of votes. That's poetic.
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Ah yes, the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse: pizza, flower, bisexual, and windmill
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I got "Guillotine" vs "Monarch" when I tried the poll. Real France moment
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As a sleep-deprived bisexual English-speaking nerd myself, I consider this list to be extremely accurate.
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I'd love for Tom to periodically re-run this quiz for 5 hours at a time with the same data, perhaps annually. Eventually he could take the top 10 results from every session, pit those against each other to find his audiences ultimate best thing.
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"Orgasm" getting ranked 69 is pure fate in action.
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"I'm a privacy advocate!" "I'll give you a slice of pizza in exchange for your email password." "Deal!"
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It's interesting that the only physical object that makes it on the top ten list is pizza. Government: "You can have pizza or privacy, not both. Which do you choose?" Citizen: "Hrmmm..." thinks for a while Citizen: "I'll take the pizza."
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I like the way you phrased your conclusion. "This statistic reveals something about the group of people who watch your video". Thats true. Nothing more, nothing less.
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“Orgasm was rated #69” Everything about this poll is amazing.
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ah yes, the four most important pillars of life: pizza, pollination, bisexuality, and wind power
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Someone needs to do this with a larger group of people, and I want to be part of it this time.
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it's been 2 years but every time I think of "dog go fishing" I laugh incredibly hard, what a thing to happen
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I’d like to imagine everyone’s collective internet hive mind subconsciously balanced the win and losses for “orgasm” to be 69th place
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Nobody is talking about how orgasm is in 69th place and space and time has the exact same amount of EVERYTHING
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You should repeat this every 5 years and note any trends and changes over time. It'd be really cool to see what changes and what stays the same over time
