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What's up with the percentages? Zero points gets 13%, 6% or 5% depending on the answer, while 122 points gets 1%, and 133 points gets 1%. I'm intrigued to know what the logic behind the percentages is, considering the solution is so simple (points/total*100) I'd love to know how the code was developed to get it so spectacularly wrong.

(It's probably the same code which gives you an "Unknown or expired link" message when you try and make a post after reading comments for more than five minutes... get those Reddit guys over here to sort this out!)



The percentages have nothing to do with the results of this poll; they're the percentages for the population in general.


  I am interested to see how much we differ from the average
  population. The average #s appear in parenthesis after the
  choices, and were copied from 
  http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/stats.htm




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