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I have always been compelled to 8 for some strange reason.

Maybe the 80's ?

9 Because it's my favourite number, and has been long before I learned that it was Tzeentch's number. I would've preferred Khorne, but being a patron of Tzeentch is fine too.

I voted 10. BOOM! put a damper on that statistic. Hmm, maybe you should put this under the psychological/sociological experimentation thread

I've actually seen this in a magic trick book (although it was a very lame trick). You ask a person to pick a number 1 through 10, and always guess their number as 7. There's no trick to it or anything, but 7 is the most commonly picked "random" number, so you play the odds.

7 was actually going to be my pick, but then I remembered this factoid and went with 1 to screw up your data

Why not just roll a D12 and re-roll 12's?

And if you have more than 12 players, use a D20. Reroll invalid results. The problem with asking people to pick is that you are not asking for a random result.

Bookwrack wrote:And if you have more than 12 players, use a D20. Reroll invalid results. The problem with asking people to pick is that you are not asking for a random result.

I showed them this data and this is now what we are doing.

Thanks goes out to everyone.

Bookwrack wrote:And if you have more than 12 players, use a D20. Reroll invalid results. The problem with asking people to pick is that you are not asking for a random result.

Even if you did, people prefer kinda-sorta random over true random... For example, people tend to feel that repetition is 'not random' but in this situation, it would be perfectly valid for the same number to show up several times in a row.

In western European culture, seven is regarded as a lucky number and is often picked by people when asked to pick a number.

If you ask the same question of Chinese and Japanese people, you will get a low response on 4 and 7, and a high response on eight. This is because in Chinese and Japanese, the words for four and seven sound similar to the word "death'. I don't know why 8 is considered lucky.

It is similar to asking Europeans to pick a number between 11 and 20. You will get a low rate of responses for 13.

TLR Cultural Bias changes the numbers people pick.

Kilkrazy wrote:In western European culture, seven is regarded as a lucky number and is often picked by people when asked to pick a number.

If you ask the same question of Chinese and Japanese people, you will get a low response on 4 and 7, and a high response on eight. This is because in Chinese and Japanese, the words for four and seven sound similar to the word "death'. I don't know why 8 is considered lucky.

It is similar to asking Europeans to pick a number between 11 and 20. You will get a low rate of responses for 13.

TLR Cultural Bias changes the numbers people pick.

This and that most people asked just picked low numbers because everyone had their basic non-special players listed first on their rosters, so that the really good players would not get any better...

All is well now.

However the results of this poll are interesting...

Guess what, I just said 'pick a no. from 1-10' 2 my mum within 2 secs of viewing the poll results, and she said 7, and then I asked my dad, he said 7 too!!!!