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2[OC] I asked 1.6k people how many holes certain objects have.
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well done op! I found this very interesting. 5% of people think spoons have holes!
I dig a small depression in sand then I have made a hole. The spoon's bowl is a small depression. Therefore a spoon has a hole.
I assume...
To be fair. You can get a special spoon with a moustache guard and hole in it to sip your soup through. Those have a hole.
Do not try to see the spoon, that's impossible. Instead only try to realise the truth...there is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that forms a hole, it is only yourself.
At least 5% of people filling out an online survey didn't read the question and just picked a response
Well, soup spoons often have holes in the ladle to hang them up. Maybe they thought of those?
But yes, I was wondering as well.
A cup is a spoon with a very deep hole... You see it depends on your point of view
Some folks have holes in their spoons' handles so they can hang them up
There should be a control question where the two answers are literally "right answer" and "wrong answer", just to measure how often people mis-read, click on the wrong button, whatever.
maybe they thought it was a trick question and/or thought "They make spoons with holes in them" I feel like a lot of people would be like...thats a silly question, it must be the set up to a joke or something.
If you zoom in far enough you have a depression with walls.. Sooo technically a hole
Very interesting. By the time I reached the end I was wondering what actually defines a "hole".
definitely see the vsauce on it - in the field of topology:
A hole in a mathematical object is a topological structure which prevents the object from being continuously shrunk to a point. When dealing with topological spaces, a disconnectivity is interpreted as a hole in the space.
basically...something you can pass another object through without crossing any of the surfaces through themselves. A typical coffee mug is equivalent to a torus/donut. (the handle has a hole, but the 'container' does not, since you can't pass an object through it...and thus you can rearrange all the inner and outer surfaces (except the handle) to just a sphere which could be shrunken/simplified to a point..because of the handle and subsequent hole, you get a torus.
Hey Vsauce, Michael Here, here's a video that explains the science behind holes in a funny, educational way!
That was super interesting.
Except for that opening. That was extra gross.