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You are presented with two plates with chocolate on them

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Lifted said:
much better question. i always use the bigger roll as it it's had less people touching it with their shitty fingers.
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actually the smaller roll will have less poop, as
1) it's been used more recently, so the paper has had less exposure to the poopy air
2) surface area of a smaller roll is smaller, reducing the chance that someone has touched the sheet that you will now be using.
 
WTF? I'm the only one in the room? Sounds sort of like a sociology greed test but in those there is always another party. Otherwise the large plate of course, there is no other answer.

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If all the chocolates were the same size, shape, and by any other indication, I'd take from the half empty plate(most likely). Mostly because it would seem the right thing to do, I muse.

If all the chocolates were different sizes, shapes, filling, etc, the fullness of the plates wouldn't be a factor in the decision.
 
Choose from the plate with half the chocolate, on the chance (possible, but not guaranteed) that someone chose from that plate due to information they had but I do not (i.e., the heart shaped chocolates taste yummy but the square shaped ones have nuts and taste like shit). Assuming, that is, that there is a clear pattern that chocolates of different types of clearly on separate plates (not randomized).
 
mjrpes3 said:
Choose from the plate with half the chocolate, on the chance (possible, but not guaranteed) that someone chose from that plate due to information they had but I do not (i.e., the heart shaped chocolates taste yummy but the square shaped ones have nuts and taste like shit). Assuming, that is, that there is a clear pattern that chocolates of different types of clearly on separate plates (not randomized).
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I agree with this. Given two similar choices, one more chosen than the other, and no particular reason swaying me to choose either one, I would select the more popular one.
 
mmntech said:
Is this some sort of psychological test? Basic human nature would direct us to take the plate with more.
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I saw a report last night on the ABC World News where they were giving blind samples to walkers by. In the test, expensive chocolate and cheap chocolate were presented to them on separate plates, but they were able to sample both and choose which one they liked more. But I was wondering if they saw how much was left on the plate, would that somehow change their perception of how the chocolate would taste.

But you could apply this "test" to, say, two products on display at the grocery store. While not perfect, if you saw two brands of beers at the store but didn't know anything about them, but one brand had significantly less left than the other brand, would you pick the brand that you assume everyone else was buying.
 
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