[felix089]

Yea funny coincidence, but this is not at all how the human answers were collected.

Rapidata answered this in another comment below. They integrate micro-surveys into mobile apps (like Duolingo, games, etc) as an optional opt-in instead of watching ads. The users are vetted and there's no incentive to answer correctly.

[cortesoft]

Yeah, I always intentionally choose a wrong answer when I get one of those kinds of ads. Little acts of rebellion.

[schmidtc]

But, there is a clear incentive to answer the question incorrectly. The wrong answer is funny and will give the human some level of pleasure thinking about it. I would certainly reply with "walk" just for fun and apparently 28.5% of people agree with me.

[Normal_gaussian]

In which case the %age is notable as it aligns very closely to the effect size on cookie accept/reject ratios. Cookie dialogs tend to fall 70/30 either way.

[tantalor]

> there's no incentive to answer correctly

Answering correctly is not in question here. This is essentially opinion polling anyway, there is no single correct answer.

The incentive is exactly what you said: to skip ads.

How are the users actually vetted? We have no information on this, just have to take rapidata on faith.

[tylervigen]

> there is no single correct answer

I think we all mostly agree that there is a single correct answer, and that is why this discussion exists in the first place.