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Anyone else notice? (Correct answers on 9/30/13 show)


Did anyone else notice that the correct answers for all but one of the ten Round One questions (specifically the third question) had C for the correct answer? As well as the "Question of the Day" during the last commercial break!

And then on the first "Classic Millionaire" ($100,000) question, the contestant was unsure but decided to guess at C on a hunch and was wrong.

I'm a retired school psychologist and took graduate courses in statistical probabilities, in the composition of multiple choice test questions, and in subliminal operant conditioning. There is no way that nine out of ten multiple choice questions with four choices each would end up with the same letter choice correct answer by blind random arrangement. (That's a 1 in 1,048,576 probability.)

Something's not kosher here. It looks to me like either there was some collusion beforehand to boost the contestant's winnings, or the contestant was subliminally conditioned into anticipating that C would always be the correct answer and then got stung once she entered "Classic Millionaire". Please note that I'm not accusing anybody of anything, but I do smell a rat!

Shades of The $64,000 Question!

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I was surprised at all of the C answers too.



"I'm in such bad shape, I'm wearing prescription underwear." Phyllis Diller 1917-2012

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Interesting that this came up. My mom loves this show and I was over at her house one and day she was talking about how C was the right answer way more than any other letter. So I watched and she was right I would say at least 50 to 60% of the correct answers were C on most episodes. I haven't notice if it still is this season the show is now unwatchable.

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What makes it "unwatchable"?



"I'm in such bad shape, I'm wearing prescription underwear." Phyllis Diller 1917-2012

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THEY DID IT AGAIN! (The "Millionaire by the Decade" '90s episode, 11/27/13)

This time around, 8 out of the 10 Round One questions, including the first 7, had D for the correct answer. That rat is smelling stronger!

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