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notsylverlast Friday at 2:55 PM5 repliesview on HN

It seems like the right answer is usually the longest of the choices, I managed to get a few just by picking the longest. It would also be nice if there was a "I don't know" instead of guessing and skewing the results by getting it right, though maybe thats accounted for


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orritolast Friday at 3:06 PM

These were likely all AI generated, or at least the alternatives were. I made an app a while ago as well, and afterwards realized AI often wanted to make a very covering answer for the correct one, making it often longer than the others, thus defeating the idea of the quiz in the process.

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jwrallieyesterday at 1:04 AM

Usually there were two answers that sounded like the word If read by someone unfamiliar, those were short, then either one or two long versions.

If one long versions you choose that, if two, then you choose the one that would be more useful to have a word assigned to it.

latexrlast Friday at 4:35 PM

> It seems like the right answer is usually the longest of the choices

You are correct. I tested that hypothesis about a dozen times and it seems that if you always pick the longest you’ll get it right somewhere in the high 70s to mid 80s. For anyone interested in testing for themselves, open the website to the first question then run this in the console (not going to spend time optimising it, it works well enough for the purpose):

  let loopCount = 0

  const loop = setInterval(() => {
    Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("button")).slice(0, 4).reduce((long, curr) => curr.textContent.length > long.textContent.length ? curr : long).click()
    setTimeout(() => Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("button")).at(-1).click(), 100)
    setTimeout(() => Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("button")).at(-1).click(), 200)

    loopCount++
    if (loopCount === 100) clearInterval(loop)
  }, 500)
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thenthenthenlast Friday at 3:45 PM

Also surprisingly mostly the forst or last option (might be bias)

thenthenthenlast Friday at 4:06 PM

Hahahhaha i got 62k points by just choosing the longest definitions. Great observation!