There were 96 subjects (college students, naturally) in the study. Jim On Thursday, April 12, 2018, Tom Karzes <karzes@sonic.net> wrote:
I suspect there is a strong cultural component to this. Different cultures have very different notions of "lucky" vs. "unlucky" numbers, for instance. Even within a culture, age probably plays a factor as well.
Tom
James Propp writes:
If you ask people to name a random card in a standard deck, what regularities govern their answers?
(Is this something someone has looked at?)
Cf. the observation that when people are asked to pick a number between 1 and 20, the most common answer is 17.
Jim Propp
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