They might as well say 80%, but that doesn’t seem as great as 4 out of 5, because otherwise it wouldn’t be like “wow, only one person disliked the product!” This statistic is fairly common in commercials and I’m wondering how much of it is actually true (or if they actually interviewed only 5 people). And then we don’t get to hear why the 5th person thinks that way, but I guess that makes sense since it might persuade people not to buy it. And… and yeah, I guess that’s all.
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Proportions, I guess. What I always thought was that they poll a good round number of dentists and then simplify to get that “4 out of 5 dentists” statement.
But then again, they could also be polled like the Trident commercials.
Weren’t there commercials a while back that actually asked “what about the fifth dentist?” they had unfortunate things happen to the fifth dentist, like accidentally knocking him self out and landing on the ‘no’ button or stuff like that. I don’t remember what the commercials were for… then again I never do remember what funny commercials advertise lol
This reminds me of a joke from one of the Sam and Max games.
A gumball machine was beaten to pulp by four dentists while a 5th stood to the side crying “Why can’t we all just get along!”, or something to that general effect.
Somehow seeing the word “dentist” is making me play that one dentist song from Little Shop of Horrors in my head manually. Man what an awesome movie/musical…
“Buy this Sh*t! 4 out of 5 idiots recommend this Sh*t! The fifth one was actually a Sane person, who not just don’t eat sh*t, but don’t give a sh*t either, so we just shot him into the river. Oh what was I’m talking about?”
um…4 out of 5 dentists can mean the 80% of the poblation of them…remind me something about the proportion 80-20,something about who the 80% of the poblation have only the 20% of the money and the 20% restant have the 80%…a proportion who is very common in lots of things.
But now,used it for adv:a kind of peer preasure…if 4 of five dentists recomended that product,why you not?-mayority=best side,etc…i think who maybe the publicists are a bit lazy nd no maked the estadistics to all the dentists… but take the proportion 80-20 for make their adv.(hope who not XD)
An extra panel?
And yes, the minority is sometimes right!
1 out of 1 respondents enjoys this Flash, but notes it has an extra “next frame” button at the end that leads to a blank frame.
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For some reason think reminds me of game shows, I thought while the guy was getting left out: “You are the weakest link. Goodbye.”
I surprised to see that Yuyuko hasn’t eaten all of the dentists and made them go extinct yet.
@Tesmy
Is that why there’s no dentists in Gensokyo?
;_;
In other news, 1 out of 5 dentists personally enjoy arguing for the sake of arguing.
Proportions, I guess. What I always thought was that they poll a good round number of dentists and then simplify to get that “4 out of 5 dentists” statement.
But then again, they could also be polled like the Trident commercials.
Or then again, this is Nitori’s doing.
@Tesmy: we have Eirin
@Pipokary: Yes Eirin will solve all our problems :D
The life of a Dentist…
SO CRUEL! *cries*
lol… I have thought about this before…
either that last guy is unfortunate… or a jerk =P
7 out of 10 Canadians report not getting enough whole grain.
Funny. I’ve got a dentist appointment scheduled for next Monday.
“Who knew dentists could be so mean” she says. “I KNEW,” I says.
Dentists are fine and all but I really wish that the tools they used didn’t look like they were meant to kill you.
Weren’t there commercials a while back that actually asked “what about the fifth dentist?” they had unfortunate things happen to the fifth dentist, like accidentally knocking him self out and landing on the ‘no’ button or stuff like that. I don’t remember what the commercials were for… then again I never do remember what funny commercials advertise lol
4 out of five pointless statisticians agree that 100% of all people who are born eventually die.
This reminds me of a joke from one of the Sam and Max games.
A gumball machine was beaten to pulp by four dentists while a 5th stood to the side crying “Why can’t we all just get along!”, or something to that general effect.
Somehow seeing the word “dentist” is making me play that one dentist song from Little Shop of Horrors in my head manually. Man what an awesome movie/musical…
The fifth “dentist” was actually Metalman, who would like to remind everybody that he is NOT a dentist.
GIZAGIZA☆LONELY☆HEART
This kind of survey-kind advertisement is called… uhh, selected surveys? Because they would choose which will be the fifth one.
Poor fifth dentist.
And generic toothpaste? Sounds interesting. :P
@Pipokary and NoWaiThat’sImpossible: So I made that PCB Arrange for nothing? *Sob*
“Buy this Sh*t! 4 out of 5 idiots recommend this Sh*t! The fifth one was actually a Sane person, who not just don’t eat sh*t, but don’t give a sh*t either, so we just shot him into the river. Oh what was I’m talking about?”
Also: Yay! PCB Arrange!
Also: I hate dentists. My dentist was notorious about not giving any dope before drilling two of my teeth. It hurt. Really. I was screaming.
“4 out of 5 dentists, three of whom we explicitly hired to endorse our product, agree!”
4 out of 5 dentists were about to get sued by one person because dentists are really maids at SDM.
dentist3: i’m a man maid
Aww. I feel bad for the lone dentist.
he’s probably a better dentist than the other 4 though.
;_; poor dentist… hang in there!
um…4 out of 5 dentists can mean the 80% of the poblation of them…remind me something about the proportion 80-20,something about who the 80% of the poblation have only the 20% of the money and the 20% restant have the 80%…a proportion who is very common in lots of things.
But now,used it for adv:a kind of peer preasure…if 4 of five dentists recomended that product,why you not?-mayority=best side,etc…i think who maybe the publicists are a bit lazy nd no maked the estadistics to all the dentists… but take the proportion 80-20 for make their adv.(hope who not XD)