The true answer is there are probably 5 or 6 that I couldn’t come up with a “close enough” definition for. Definitely came across a couple words I don’t recall ever even seeing in my life.
My score was 70k. I was fairly certain 6 words were one thing but I guessed against it and it was what I thought it was lol. Quite a few words I never saw in my life. Surprised at how many in grandmaster I’d seen.
lol I re-did the test using ONLY my trick.
Not much worse than my first result which I answered normally the first half, and then used the trick if I didn’t knew it. AI will **** us all.
Will reveal tomorrow.
I leave the SHA-256 hash of the answer in case someone gets it before.
4d41febba018490849ca5fcdc91e17fff32c59717d07ae35804dda3b5d4e0708
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one billion words
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Seems like it might somehow be related to right vs left-handedness. When you turn counterclockwise you are going to be facing something in closer to the traditional, rather than south-paw, fighting stance.
Trick with this is that the distractors are too obvious. Two are related to syllables in the words that are similar and the other two definitions are opposites of each other. So you can normally break down a word you don’t know easily to a 50/50 guess. I’m at question 60 with 1 wrong so far. It’s not bad though.
My trick is way more easy.
Ended up with 95/100. I’d say around a dozen or so of the words were basically 50-50 situations for me.
Definitely could have had a much lower score if I didn’t run well on those.
Handedness seems like a natural possible explanation. Since most people are right-handed/footed, don’t they naturally tend to step forward with that foot first? That might slightly turn you counterclockwise so you get subconsciously trained to go that way. I don’t know biology so don’t have a clue why right-handedness should be more common in the first place though.
could also be a societal thing too, when you walk down a hallway societal norms tell you to walk down the right side, so when you change direction you are forced to turn counter clockwise
But is that common across societies? Or is it more like what side of the road they drive on?
looks like they walk on the left in Japan, so maybe my point is moot. Interesting that they walk on the left and also turn to the left
In Japan, you generally walk on the left side of the sidewalk or path, which corresponds with the country’s left-hand vehicle traffic. However, exact rules depend on where you are and what you are doing. [1, 2]
Use this quick guide to navigate like a local:
Hmm. The article said Japanese also favor counterclockwise turning. Ofc it wasn’t much of an article; didn’t mention a hypothesis for why.
So apparently chimpanzees are also right hand biased, but more like 60-70%, instead of 90-10 like humans.
We are similar biases across many species, especially social ones.
So humans being "more " social might be why we have a stronger bias, but could also be weapons and other tool use.
Why right instead of left. I think it’s just random lock in of an evolutionary path, but there is a link between language centres and fine motor control in the left side of the brain, so could be that specifically.
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School fish tend to turn in one direction over another.
At Burning Man, after the man burned, everyone up close started moving in a circle around it. Counterclockwise.
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They’re probably looking up at the clock
I learned on a castle tour that spiral staircases ascend clockwise to give right-handed defenders an advantage, though this might be apocryphal
How does that give an advantage? It seems like more an advantage for left handers who would have no wall obstruction. Could be a funny scene in a movie tho.
Short joke? I thought Canadians were more evolved.