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I asked people on Reddit questions like: "If there were originally 10 cookies, and now there are a couple left, how many do you think are left?"
Some people were asked about cases with 10 original cookies, others with 50 cookies. Each question gave a different amount of remaining cookies: "a couple", "not many", "a few", "some" or "several".
Here are the average responses for each question, along with 95% confidence intervals.
Now as a percentage of the total number of cookies.
The distributions.
FartsSmellBad
A couple is always 2... wth is this 2.5 shit
cpiderman
cakemeister
Someone tells you to "go down a couple of blocks" or to "pick up a couple of XYZ." Do they mean "exactly two" and if they do why not say so?
FartsSmellBad
When saying "a couple" they should mean exactly two, because a couple is exactly two.
cakemeister
Should and does are two different things.