r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 19d ago

Meme needing explanation What movie reference am I missing

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u/Ghostley92 19d ago

But if you know every question and are NOT guessing randomly, it is not.

u/-widget- 19d ago

If you know the answer to every question the difficulty of getting a zero is equivalent to getting a 100. So it's still not a more difficult accomplishment to get a 0.

u/Ghostley92 19d ago

I wouldn’t say they absolutely know each answer. Getting 0 is easier than getting 100, but getting 0 seems deliberate.

My point was that it is not equivalent to a true/false test and citing the previous comment

u/Rymanbc 19d ago

To be fair, getting 100 also seems deliberate.

u/Ghostley92 19d ago

Well isn’t that the prescribed objective of the test?

u/SolidestCereal 19d ago

Will this be on the test?

u/Thenewbie7 19d ago

But it's a "desirable outcome". Someone that wants to fail while knowing most of the answers is something that a teacher might want to understand

u/Evening-Nature-5241 19d ago

It's highly unlikely, but not impossible. Just because someone got 0 could indicate they did it on purpose, but also, they might just have been phenomenally unlucky with all their guesses.

u/Thenewbie7 19d ago

With only 20 questions with 4 possible answers, you only have 0,3% chances of getting a 0/20. A 5 possible answers 40 questions drops to 0,01%. It's more likely that something's going on than someone being THAT unlucky.