The Zipf Mystery

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @Vsauce
    @Vsauce  9 лет назад +6672

    Hey Vsauce! FYI: 181 million / 5555 is 32583.2583258... the "=" should be a "≈" How I missed that is a mystery -- but it's not as big as the Zipf mystery!

    • @steelwolf411
      @steelwolf411 9 лет назад +28

      +Vsauce yes

    • @humvy23
      @humvy23 9 лет назад +56

      +Vsauce Thank you for your art Michael.

    • @antoinecedriccc2
      @antoinecedriccc2 9 лет назад +32

      +Vsauce You should do a video about the six degrees of separation theory!! Anyways love your vids.

    • @ItsMatic
      @ItsMatic 9 лет назад +5

      What about Cern or H.a.r.p Something about portals or wormholes into different dimensions do an Vid on that ? .

    • @rayankhalil2495
      @rayankhalil2495 9 лет назад +3

      ummm okayy??? #FuckThisShitImOut

  • @enderboy1824
    @enderboy1824 4 года назад +5068

    “The of and to, a in is I. That it for you was with on. As have, but be they.”
    -Michael
    This was my senior quote

  • @harrys4698
    @harrys4698 8 лет назад +70739

    80% of Michaels hair is on 20% of his head

  • @lezbeehonest0294
    @lezbeehonest0294 Год назад +272

    14:40 I've always loved when in conversation, someone uses a word that's out of fashion or hasn't been used in a while, and within like 3 minutes, someone says it again. Or when I watch a streamer that has an article or something on screen and they choose a word from the visible text. Like our brains just latch onto words.

    • @cara-seyun
      @cara-seyun 11 месяцев назад +10

      I believe this is the explanation for why there is so much plagiarism online
      People aren’t even aware they are copying someone else

    • @Chachoncha
      @Chachoncha 5 месяцев назад +3

      It happened to me the other day! I showed my cats to my friend and used the word « comrades » for an obscure reason, and two minutes later she used it again in another discussion with someone. She didnt realize she just copied the weird word I used. She probably thought it was coming from her!

    • @MizzyLQ
      @MizzyLQ 5 месяцев назад +4

      The Bader Meinhoff effect

    • @alphanumeric6582
      @alphanumeric6582 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@MizzyLQ Also known as the Frequency Illusion. It means something appearing more frequent than it actually is, but it doesn't. It's just your mind being more aware of it

  • @gemworm
    @gemworm 5 лет назад +12002

    In group chats:
    80% of the talking is done by 20% of the members

    • @abeke5523
      @abeke5523 5 лет назад +713

      All these comments made me realize that holy fucking shit the 80-20 rule is actually everywhere

    • @_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
      @_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ 5 лет назад +113

      Holy shit you’re right

    • @small_SHOT
      @small_SHOT 5 лет назад +54

      It is confirmed that *y o u e x i s t*

    • @skthechef8075
      @skthechef8075 5 лет назад +14

      Facts

    • @floofyliu8819
      @floofyliu8819 5 лет назад +29

      Big brain big brain

  • @mmandible5470
    @mmandible5470 3 года назад +4379

    “I cannot remember all the books I’ve read anymore than all the meals I’ve eaten, even so they have made me” is perhaps one of the most beautiful sentiments I’ve ever heard

    • @Luxifer66
      @Luxifer66 2 года назад +99

      according to zipfs law, by now you must have forgot it.

    • @abra_escaped
      @abra_escaped 2 года назад +11

      Why thank you captain risk of rain 2

    • @MysteriusSushi
      @MysteriusSushi 2 года назад +17

      “I cannot remember all *the* books I’ve read anymore than all the meals I’ve eaten, even so they have made me” is perhaps one of *the* most beautiful sentiments I’ve ever heard

    • @StdDev99
      @StdDev99 2 года назад +69

      I'm glad I have forgotten this video because I've enjoyed it again 6.5 years later like I'm seeing it for the first time

    • @nickoldberg1752
      @nickoldberg1752 2 года назад +16

      I'm so glad he ended with that bit of positivity because it was getting to existential crisis a bit about how much of our lives we forget

  • @ThatMumboJumbo
    @ThatMumboJumbo 9 лет назад +18574

    This video made me uneasy for some reason.

    • @hailmusix5225
      @hailmusix5225 9 лет назад +1254

      Because 80% of the government is 20% Illuminat :o

    • @Fatherlake
      @Fatherlake 9 лет назад +642

      +Mumbo Jumbo HEY MUMBO!!! A SURPRISE TO SEE YOU HERE! im a subber btw

    • @morgancook4288
      @morgancook4288 9 лет назад +855

      isn't it weird the same people you like also like the people you like ?

    • @evren.builds
      @evren.builds 9 лет назад +238

      +Mumbo Jumbo It`s just that you`re living in a computer program nothing to make you uneasy...

    • @AdroSlice
      @AdroSlice 9 лет назад +160

      Wow. Interristing to see you here, of all places. I'm glad you have interrest such cool things though.

  • @PazEr80
    @PazEr80 Год назад +695

    Last week I attended a lecture at university about power laws and preferential attachment processes.
    It's crazy to think that I already knew everything because 8 years ago teenage me was binge watching Vsauce.
    Thanks Michael for making us smarter in the most entertaining way, honestly no one does it like you. You will never be forgotten.

    • @A1exP1ays
      @A1exP1ays 7 месяцев назад +11

      dayum, still very sad he no longer makes long form thi

    • @MrAdamo
      @MrAdamo 6 месяцев назад +6

      Same with me and computer videos. It’s funny to think that I was procrastinating back then, when now watching those videos feels like studying.

    • @vl5008
      @vl5008 4 месяца назад +3

      Amen! Forreal! I’m not the best at algorithms but the math he gives us makes me feel like I’m getting a more solid foundation. 😅

    • @menotuandurmom
      @menotuandurmom 16 дней назад

      Did he die?

    • @dusk2-4
      @dusk2-4 3 дня назад

      @@menotuandurmom no, he just doesn't make long form content anymore. it's still a really weird way of saying that tho.

  • @vidulab3977
    @vidulab3977 5 лет назад +2772

    5:06 The way one of my teachers explained the 80 20 thing: 80% of the noise in a classroom is caused by 20% of the students.

    • @ChangedNames
      @ChangedNames 5 лет назад +42

      •brain explodes•

    • @weichenplays
      @weichenplays 5 лет назад +19

      The

    • @gressorialNanites
      @gressorialNanites 5 лет назад +21

      If that is true, s/he needs to speak up. The students in the back need to hear hir too.

    • @bursteh1135
      @bursteh1135 5 лет назад +5

      Maybe she has ears, And if she actually has ears, we're doomed.

    • @zaxxro2547
      @zaxxro2547 5 лет назад +3

      Can you speak up? I can't hear from back here

  • @randomuser3053
    @randomuser3053 3 года назад +6965

    Michael; the only man who can answer 16 questions when we only asked one

    • @Qwazor
      @Qwazor 2 года назад +190

      clearly he "answer"s more than we "ask"

    • @shyeskyeskyeksye
      @shyeskyeskyeksye 2 года назад +229

      80% of the answers come from 20% of the questions

    • @thaddeusphish4113
      @thaddeusphish4113 2 года назад +47

      ​@@shyeskyeskyeksye my brain is to broken to read this

    • @ROMANXA5
      @ROMANXA5 2 года назад +30

      1 minute of watching him and i learn more then a whole year of school

    • @Amirrorofmirrors
      @Amirrorofmirrors 2 года назад +7

      he'll answer 8 questions when asked only 2

  • @mlgeorge.
    @mlgeorge. 5 лет назад +26731

    Fun fact: He had said 16 words before the first “the” he said

    • @ramananprv4756
      @ramananprv4756 5 лет назад +571

      !!! Why doesn't this comment have more likes

    • @slinkerdeer
      @slinkerdeer 5 лет назад +1129

      @@ramananprv4756 because this video is from 2015

    • @b4o450
      @b4o450 5 лет назад +195

      But the comments are 3 days ago

    • @spadeney3722
      @spadeney3722 5 лет назад +339

      MLGeorge AND THAT IS ABOUT 5.88% OF WHAT HE SAID (in those 17 words) AND HE SAID ABOUT 6% OF WHAT YOU SAY WILL BE “THE”
      coincidence? I THINK NOT

    • @x_Fr0stee_x
      @x_Fr0stee_x 5 лет назад +60

      No mans sky. 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16

  • @colby722
    @colby722 Год назад +158

    Watching this nearly a decade later. Probably my 20th time revisiting this exact video. By far my favorite video on RUclips. Absolutely beautiful composition and every part makes me think deep every time I watch it. I love this video

    • @d-bro5695
      @d-bro5695 Год назад +11

      You and me both mate - I try to educate people about Zipfs Law frequently, but usually just redirect them here. Come to think of it, I’d probably redirect about 80% of them here and explain it sufficiently to the other 20%….

    • @MusicDecomposer
      @MusicDecomposer 7 месяцев назад +5

      Your 20th time watching the video, huh? I guess that means you remember 80% of it.

    • @limz5093
      @limz5093 17 дней назад

      me with literally every vsauce video, this guys the goat of youtube by far

  • @emzy_9442
    @emzy_9442 3 года назад +4552

    I know what I must do. I must make an entire book that says the word sauce over 100 million times

    • @snoopydog1163
      @snoopydog1163 3 года назад +752

      disturb the balance
      restore *sauce*

    • @newboy6736
      @newboy6736 3 года назад +166

      when you do that it goes up the word rankings and gets divided by a smaller number so it dosent even make too much of a difference in the grand scheme of things

    • @theosouris7063
      @theosouris7063 3 года назад +79

      Reject logic. Return to the 2009 YTP.

    • @xylobomb7527
      @xylobomb7527 3 года назад +51

      I will do the same, but with *SUS*

    • @ahmed4363
      @ahmed4363 3 года назад +11

      Now add V

  • @finnberuldsen4798
    @finnberuldsen4798 9 лет назад +6559

    Finding a Vsauce video in your subscriptions feels like finding $20 on the street.

    • @manueldom123
      @manueldom123 9 лет назад +71

      +Finn Beruldsen Well said! I need more $20 dollar bills.

    • @samherport7586
      @samherport7586 9 лет назад +18

      it really does mate

    • @veazix
      @veazix 9 лет назад +5

      +Finn Beruldsen Both get the reaction: "Ummmm... YES."

    • @oducks5820
      @oducks5820 9 лет назад +23

      Its $20 worth of knowledge.

    • @joseph_lacy
      @joseph_lacy 9 лет назад +3

      So true

  • @Botpointo
    @Botpointo 3 года назад +8369

    Group projects:
    80% of the work is done by 20% of the students

  • @GothicOctopus
    @GothicOctopus Год назад +101

    Fun fact: I remembered the top most used words and often tried to quote them in order but for YEARS I could not label this video. It made me so happy to stumble upon it again

  • @Reivax2007
    @Reivax2007 3 года назад +7580

    The most used words are now: hey, vsauce, Michael, here.

    • @person7038
      @person7038 3 года назад +142

      The most words you said in that sentence are “ , “

    • @neeevirus
      @neeevirus 3 года назад +173

      @@person7038 that is not a word. A word is made up of letters. That is a special character. You can't even say it since it doesn't have a pronunciation.
      That said the most words I said in this reply was "is", not ".".

    • @maddog3006
      @maddog3006 3 года назад +5

      Ikr

    • @person7038
      @person7038 3 года назад +38

      @@neeevirus Ik I was kidding

    • @neeevirus
      @neeevirus 3 года назад +56

      @@person7038 I had a slight feeling you were kidding, but I still went and replied like that
      sorry for not getting the joke

  • @Vsauce
    @Vsauce  9 лет назад +6581

    And just like that there are already TWO Google results for "quizzaciously." Now, within the Google-search-result corpus, quizzaciously is technically a "dis legomenon." Next stop? "tris legomenon," then "tetrakis legomenon," and beyond!!!

    • @FlamJongUn
      @FlamJongUn 9 лет назад +37

      pentakis, exakis etc!

    • @MadeinHell2
      @MadeinHell2 9 лет назад +17

      +Vsauce Such a thing happens to google whacks all the time. It is a sad thing to see go.

    • @maxkoller6315
      @maxkoller6315 9 лет назад +4

      hahaha I love you mate :)

    • @ArceusDX
      @ArceusDX 9 лет назад +37

      +Vsauce I just checked the Oxford English Dictionary site, Quizzaciously has disappeared.

    • @thethanmanland2
      @thethanmanland2 9 лет назад +22

      +TheOneTemor omg illuminati confrimed

  • @sagesarrazine6270
    @sagesarrazine6270 4 года назад +8963

    Fun fact: Marine biologists have found that Zipf's law also applies to dolphin click patterns. Dolphins have their own language

    • @dollcefina
      @dollcefina 4 года назад +280

      I knew it!! 🐬🐬🐬 (By which I mean that I _suspected_ so, not that I already knew the fact, haha.)

    • @4merly
      @4merly 4 года назад +457

      @@dollcefina Fun fact, you typed 16 words before typing "the". (idk if intentional)

    • @Nukestarmaster
      @Nukestarmaster 4 года назад +212

      "So long and thanks for all the fish"

    • @JL1009
      @JL1009 4 года назад +19

      @@sagesarrazine6270 16.

    • @-Danny
      @-Danny 4 года назад +147

      Although yes, it's true that they have a language, it's not Zipf's law that confirms it. Going back to the paperclip example, you can see how random events in a set can result in this pattern. There's nothing intelligent about the way he picked each paperclip to link. Do we have enough information to say we discovered a paperclip language? ...maybe if you tried hard enough you could create it, but the data itself says nothing.

  • @SAT_GRE_GMAT
    @SAT_GRE_GMAT 9 месяцев назад +22

    Hey, Michael, Jahongir here. I am from Uzbekistan. I watch your videos almost every day. At first, when I started watching your videos, my aim was to just learn English language from native speaker in a natural way. But then my perspective towards you totally changed. When I was a child I was thirsty to learn something new. I had always looked for a new interesting facts. One day I found something that can satisfy my thirsty, curosity to understand the world and discover the all mysteries for myself.
    It was your your channel.
    Thank you for all things you have been giving. I always stay curious.

  • @nulcheck
    @nulcheck 3 года назад +3475

    Lays really takes the 80-20 thing to heart with 80% air and 20% chips in the bag

    • @auritro3903
      @auritro3903 3 года назад +7

      Lol

    • @auritro3903
      @auritro3903 3 года назад +9

      Like 69 lol

    • @unlimiteddd
      @unlimiteddd 3 года назад +4

      Boom! ʕ-ᴥ-ʔ

    • @swallow_skyla3602
      @swallow_skyla3602 3 года назад +3

      LOL

    • @GigaChad-tv7xl
      @GigaChad-tv7xl 3 года назад +108

      Fun fact: there's actually no air in crisps bags! Instead, it's nitrogen gas. It has to be there, because it keeps the crisps fresh. If it were air, the crisps would turn stale.

  • @miguelisaurusbruh1158
    @miguelisaurusbruh1158 3 года назад +2840

    "I cannot remember the books i've read anymore than the meals i have eaten, even so, they have made me" That gave me chills, one of the best things i've ever heard

    • @lordneojacks
      @lordneojacks 3 года назад +50

      I know. I do complaint as I spend a lot of time reading and watching educative videos but can't seem to remember all details of them.
      EDIT: Interestingly enough... I do remember this part of this video..

    • @klb9672
      @klb9672 3 года назад +13

      @@lordneojacks yeah it irritates me too when I think about it.

    • @DuffManWool
      @DuffManWool 3 года назад +25

      To me too, great quote. Sadly We will forget about it soon

    • @enjybadran7876
      @enjybadran7876 3 года назад +4

      @@SoloLevellor I'm a darktuber & you can't catch me nananananana you are banana

    • @FloraMHorta
      @FloraMHorta 3 года назад +5

      Same here, it brought tears to my eyes for some reason.

  • @evanmclellan9014
    @evanmclellan9014 7 лет назад +3171

    80% of my attention is on 20% of the screen

    • @boozer01
      @boozer01 7 лет назад +84

      Ronald McDonald
      Nigga I'm gonna kick the McShit™ outta you

    • @bliss7470
      @bliss7470 7 лет назад +35

      Your profile picture is very appropriate for your comment.

    • @mangetsuderdeutschgamer6580
      @mangetsuderdeutschgamer6580 7 лет назад +26

      Nigga you too woke for me

    • @Whyolent
      @Whyolent 7 лет назад +7

      tbh that is probably correct

    • @w00fsicle36
      @w00fsicle36 7 лет назад +1

      1000 likes in just three months... I'm impressed.

  • @MatsueMusic
    @MatsueMusic 10 месяцев назад +39

    I watch this video every time the world feels too chaotic to remember that this moment is just an outlier.

  • @grfrjiglstan
    @grfrjiglstan 9 лет назад +4155

    And now there's 58,800 Google results for 'quizzaciously' - and a subreddit. Way to go, Michael, you saved a word from obscurity.

    • @seigeengine
      @seigeengine 9 лет назад +140

      +grfrjiglstan No. If the rule holds then quizzaciously becoming more popular won't have any net effect.

    • @AquariusRisen
      @AquariusRisen 9 лет назад +24

      That's funny; my Web search didn't come up with anything.

    • @Zerepzerreitug
      @Zerepzerreitug 9 лет назад +64

      remember to search for it with quotation marks. With them, it's only 110 results so far.

    • @artyknotswastaken
      @artyknotswastaken 9 лет назад +5

      +Arturo Gutierrez Ah, 327

    • @mariahmerry
      @mariahmerry 9 лет назад +16

      +grfrjiglstan Btw, the word in in Wikipedia now as well lol

  • @direwolf029
    @direwolf029 5 лет назад +18437

    Obviously the programmers who made the simulation we live in got lazy and decided to write one law to cover the ratio of everything

    • @isore3090
      @isore3090 5 лет назад +453

      I think those "programmers" is just God

    • @thomasgreenhill2482
      @thomasgreenhill2482 5 лет назад +736

      @@isore3090 naw god doesn't exist

    • @Christina-pq7kn
      @Christina-pq7kn 5 лет назад +247

      Yeah. If god were to exist as such an all powerful tyrant, then why doesn’t he change people who feel so privileged as to correct someone else’s beliefs. Like you Alikare.

    • @isore3090
      @isore3090 5 лет назад +395

      @@Christina-pq7kn why are atheists so ignorant, rude and conclude to opinions without thinking. Since when is stating my/your own opinion seen as "CoRrEcTiNg SoMeOnE's BeLiEf"? I think God is testing me with all these ignorant people like you, sorry bud next time, think and read comments clearly before commenting something stupid

    • @masony6489
      @masony6489 5 лет назад +192

      @@isore3090 you can't even spell "programmers" right, how are you talking?

  • @quentinbell5617
    @quentinbell5617 4 года назад +2021

    Quizzaciously
    “Quizzaciously” is an English word that means “in a mocking manner.” The word was once one of the rarest in the world (which is known as a hapax legomenon- when a word only appears once in a body of text…or in this case, a Google search) until a notable RUclipsr, Vsauce mentioned it in one of his videos.

    • @punchjudy
      @punchjudy 4 года назад +56

      Which begs the question, did Quiznos go out of business?

    • @chaoticsilver8442
      @chaoticsilver8442 4 года назад +6

      Not according to the screens at 17:35 "Given to a quizzing., of a quizzing character., one who is quizzed." (The Oxforda Dictionary) and at 17:57 "bantering., quiz., to question., interrogate." (Elder Speak)
      Somehow... Michael fudged up.

    • @Mini-ir9sn
      @Mini-ir9sn 4 года назад

      The second the was the 16th word of what you said

    • @hd_2507
      @hd_2507 4 года назад +1

      666 likes😳

    • @Ommelanden
      @Ommelanden 4 года назад +4

      Michael should start a charity for abandoned words who sadly never get used

  • @junbird
    @junbird 9 месяцев назад +14

    Shout out to my professor, who showed us the beginning of this video during class for introducing the topic at hand. Would have never expected of watching Vsauce during a university lecture.

  • @petrosstefanidis6396
    @petrosstefanidis6396 4 года назад +652

    That was quite a quote at the end.
    "I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

    • @RobinMichael64
      @RobinMichael64 4 года назад +27

      Yep, that's a quote I can fancy will be one of the 20% of quotes I've heard that I will actually remember.

    • @rjhikups78
      @rjhikups78 4 года назад +3

      Deep thoughts

    • @SWISS-1337
      @SWISS-1337 4 года назад +30

      It's strange, because you can't remember a book word for word, however, as you reread it, you remember almost every part of it.

    • @lumiel777
      @lumiel777 4 года назад

      I read Horus Heresy.
      You hyave been warned.

    • @dawoomaheshwari9333
      @dawoomaheshwari9333 4 года назад

      yes a very very very good guote!

  • @AnActualYeti
    @AnActualYeti 3 года назад +3756

    This explains why whenever you learn a new word you all of a sudden start hearing it everywhere for like weeks after

    • @yamanbusmaje
      @yamanbusmaje 3 года назад +301

      actually true, happend to me recently ... i felt like im living in a simulation, like where the hell that word was 20 ago and why I'm seeing it and hearing it everywhere

    • @summerwoodsmusic
      @summerwoodsmusic 3 года назад +325

      @@yamanbusmaje That’s the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon….I’d love to see that get its own VSauce video!

    • @profile1157
      @profile1157 3 года назад +16

      Bro soo true

    • @KanarisTM
      @KanarisTM 3 года назад +5

      Yep.

    • @GenericProtagonist118
      @GenericProtagonist118 3 года назад +9

      Sus.

  • @FISH-tp5vo
    @FISH-tp5vo 3 года назад +5276

    The fact that this man is able to make any topic entertaining is just incredible to me

    • @enjybadran7876
      @enjybadran7876 3 года назад +11

      There's Ashwiyat
      Ashwaiyat Also Make Any Topic Entertaining

    • @justice999
      @justice999 3 года назад +7

      @@enjybadran7876 link?

    • @saadsalman1650
      @saadsalman1650 3 года назад +33

      Exactly. Yet it has 6K dislikes. I am not trying to be a fanboy but I just really do not see a reason why someone would hate his videos enough to click the dislike button. WHY??

    • @tmpqtyutmpqty4733
      @tmpqtyutmpqty4733 3 года назад +3

      @@saadsalman1650 Because he is annoying. talk normally, we aren't kids

    • @doublevision2943
      @doublevision2943 3 года назад +23

      Articulation, voice volume and sound, intermittent pause durations between words and sentences, intentional use of unexpected words (as seen in the video there are loads of them) and intentional use of linguistic means (such as metaphors or comparisons or word repetitions within a sentence, parallelism, etc.) or gestures and actually looking at the listener are ALL THINGS we learn at school when the topic is "how to do a presentation": Something like VSauce's videos are the perfect example, yet 80% of people (probably more tbh) just stand there with the same monotonous voice reading whatever they have written down while presenting whatever there is to present and the most frequent words used usually become "eh, uhm, (so) yeah, like". It's boring af, even if the topic is fairly interesting. Idc if the content isn't spot on but at least look at the listeners, lower or higher the tone of your voice and maybe add some gestures. You don't even need to go to school to realize that this kind of behaviour in conversation is way more appealing than being as predictable and straight-up as possible.
      It's all about the general problem of how most people lack creativity and just copy whatever is most popular, whether it be ways of thinking, behaviour or speech. It makes sense though because that's how you're most likely to be accepted.

  • @meoutpeace
    @meoutpeace 8 месяцев назад +11

    About 80% of my brain exploded with 20% of information on this video.

  • @davidaire6769
    @davidaire6769 6 лет назад +866

    0:27 when you return home wasted and attempt to explain yourself

    • @lakshitdagar
      @lakshitdagar 6 лет назад +34

      This deserves more likes

    • @TheEclecticity
      @TheEclecticity 6 лет назад +8

      Skilful use of 'wasted'. Entirely predictable however. As is my comment that reaching 'they' was almost such a rare word (and end point) it almost starts to make sense. Like 'they'.... oh...who's they?

    • @giosaur5307
      @giosaur5307 6 лет назад

      David Aire b

    • @rqyhae3340
      @rqyhae3340 5 лет назад

      lol

    • @stuffyx3478
      @stuffyx3478 5 лет назад

      The Eclecticity ok

  • @foxyninjaa
    @foxyninjaa 3 года назад +1271

    My mum always used to say, "Education is what you remember after you've forgotten what you've been taught"

    • @joshuaarnold1895
      @joshuaarnold1895 3 года назад +155

      You mean that “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”?

    • @foxyninjaa
      @foxyninjaa 3 года назад +29

      @@joshuaarnold1895 XD precisely

    • @Qaptyl
      @Qaptyl 3 года назад +26

      @@joshuaarnold1895 dont forget to wear goggles and have no exposed skin
      mixing water with crayons is dangerous

    • @joshuaarnold1895
      @joshuaarnold1895 3 года назад +5

      @@Qaptyl what? XD
      Is this what you learned in school??

    • @Qaptyl
      @Qaptyl 3 года назад +16

      @@joshuaarnold1895 well they always put warning in the beginning of the school year but never even use anything toxic

  • @ramsessevenone416
    @ramsessevenone416 5 лет назад +531

    British National Corpus most used words:
    #5555: Sauce
    #5556: CHELTENHAM
    #5557: Shelf

    • @RabbiHerschel
      @RabbiHerschel 5 лет назад +68

      Cheltenham is the name of a town. I imagine that one or two books which use the word quite frequently would skew the numbers.

    • @jonnymo3057
      @jonnymo3057 5 лет назад +49

      What the fuck is Cheltenham and why the fuck is it used more than shelf

    • @ahall9839
      @ahall9839 5 лет назад +47

      #8243: Wrapper
      #8244: SCORNSFLAGL
      #8245: Doorknob

    • @TomWGuitar
      @TomWGuitar 5 лет назад +73

      As a person from Cheltenham, I can confirm that we've been at war with shelf for years over this. Glad to be coming out on top.

    • @yinyang1217
      @yinyang1217 5 лет назад +4

      shelf

  • @Leathermans
    @Leathermans 2 месяца назад +4

    2:43, it's only chaotic when you look at it closely, from afar it is aligned and tighty.

  • @ladyalicent705
    @ladyalicent705 4 года назад +5697

    In a classroom 80% of the talking is done by 20% of the kids.

    • @obamabinladen4109
      @obamabinladen4109 4 года назад +126

      Lord Davrox more like 3% of the kids

    • @LilCheesyBean
      @LilCheesyBean 4 года назад +50

      Obama bin Laden, that’s just the one kid that every teacher hates

    • @mmabagain
      @mmabagain 4 года назад +181

      In a classroom 80% of the homework is done by 20% of the kids too.

    • @GORNK
      @GORNK 4 года назад +43

      or are 80% of the kids done by 20% of the talking?

    • @charlesballiet7074
      @charlesballiet7074 4 года назад +8

      yea well most chimps are taught to regurgitate information. Thinking for yourself requires that rare spark of intelligence

  • @qwertylyn8382
    @qwertylyn8382 5 лет назад +2380

    Damn, that's alot to take in late at night before bed

    • @bxvtriz
      @bxvtriz 5 лет назад +38

      Qwerty Lyn i literally share the exact same struggle right now

    • @tacokitten
      @tacokitten 5 лет назад +25

      lol I am literally typing this at 11:00 at night at night and I feel the same way

    • @MrMista-zk6rz
      @MrMista-zk6rz 5 лет назад +5

      Qwerty Lyn i feel u now

    • @akirasousuke7660
      @akirasousuke7660 5 лет назад +9

      Dude... 3:14 AM here.

    • @uwumarii
      @uwumarii 5 лет назад +8

      12:07 here and in tired af. Why are we doing this to ourselves

  • @TheCarolgibbons
    @TheCarolgibbons 5 лет назад +1936

    I've always said I wear 20 percent of my clothes 80 percent of the time.

    • @nathanbullaft
      @nathanbullaft 5 лет назад +6

      Clever one 😂

    • @mariomaxy1140
      @mariomaxy1140 5 лет назад +2

      Taking that into account, you’re saying you have 20 pieces of clothing... Wow, loser!

    • @joelackers5104
      @joelackers5104 5 лет назад +31

      Mario Maxy he could have 5 pieces of clothing

    • @edme8865
      @edme8865 5 лет назад +10

      ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
      5 outfits and 5 days, that would mean wearing the same outfit for 4 days straight.
      bump it up one level.
      30 outfits for 30 days. Starting to reach on the number of outfits, but continuing on. That means wearing 6 outfits for 24 of those 30 days. This seems it could be achieved by cycling through those 6 outfits four times during the month, or once a week with wearing one of the non-six outfits on the 7th day and washing those six outfits. This would make 12 of those 30 outfits actually used, however...
      bump it up one level.
      365 outfits for 365 days. A far stretch on the number of outfits. That would mean wearing 73 outfits for 292 of those 365 days. This still seems plausible until considering the number of outfits. So...
      Try time to try the magic interentz search box. One survey list average articles of clothing as 103, another as 142, and another recommends 10 outfits. Try 142. Divide into shoes, bottoms, tops, underwear and that is 35.5 sets. Now times 20% is 7.1 outfits. There is the argument of how the shoes, bottoms, tops, underwear give multiple permutations of outfits, and this is correct. Yet by following that argument out goes into automatically disproving the 20-80 claim because of not filling the 20% of clothing by either not using that 20%(going commando?) or using more than 20%(outfit matching requirements-pajamas do not mix with button up work shirt). So, the 10 outfits is the most. Revising the above...
      10 outfits for 5 days--little problem with "25 hours in a day" concept. Otherwise seems great.
      10 outfits for 30 days--each outfit would have to be worn for 3 days, straight. Not to be confused with the breakdown of 30 outfits for 30 days.
      10 outfits for 365 days--each outfit would have to be worn for over a month. Not too certain if even homeless people do this.

    • @inanjarif1388
      @inanjarif1388 5 лет назад +15

      @@edme8865 There is the alternative option of,you know, *_cleaning the outfits_*

  • @gabrieljuanwood9947
    @gabrieljuanwood9947 Месяц назад +11

    there ain't no way "cheltenham" is used more frequently in english than "shelf"

  • @4TheRecord
    @4TheRecord 4 года назад +1551

    I had a Scottish manager and his most used word began with an f.

    • @7Dimensi0ns
      @7Dimensi0ns 4 года назад +33

      Hahaha brightened up my day =P

    • @maxwellli7057
      @maxwellli7057 4 года назад +38

      @Pedro Dumper wow big funi

    • @maxwellli7057
      @maxwellli7057 4 года назад +15

      @Adithya Nair always have this dude too

    • @mimiminecraft5362
      @mimiminecraft5362 4 года назад +15

      Pedro Dumper wtf

    • @-Dovahkiin
      @-Dovahkiin 4 года назад +16

      @Pedro Dumper idk if you're illiterate but it says f, not n

  • @Icewind007
    @Icewind007 4 года назад +1325

    When a nuke lands, 80% of the damage is in 20% of its blast radius.

    • @egg9709
      @egg9709 4 года назад +113

      80% of the comments are from 20% of the video's existence

    • @david203
      @david203 4 года назад +32

      A nuclear weapon doesn't land. Waiting until it lands to explode would result in less damage.

    • @kahlzun
      @kahlzun 4 года назад +9

      @@david203 but a lot more penetration or fallout. Depends on whether you are seeking blast radius or denial of area..

    • @boostplease7450
      @boostplease7450 4 года назад +5

      Dont nuclear weapons go off in the sky?

    • @seemelater5056
      @seemelater5056 4 года назад +9

      is that's why 80% of anime is 20% hentai?

  • @bryantadam7960
    @bryantadam7960 5 лет назад +660

    Agent Smith: Michael is the one. Eliminate him now.
    Michael: Or am I?

    • @joshnajothi4100
      @joshnajothi4100 5 лет назад +2

      We

    • @boppe2235
      @boppe2235 5 лет назад +4

      "Am I the one?
      ... dot com is a website that allows you to find out if you are the one or not. Just another DONG, something you can do online now guys"

    • @canuckeraust
      @canuckeraust 5 лет назад

      Oracle: maybe

  • @johnkeogh4177
    @johnkeogh4177 7 месяцев назад +15

    It’s about usefulness. The most used words are the most useful in the widest array of situations. Ergo: they get used in lots of situations. Words with specific meanings are only useful in specific situations. Ergo: they get used only in those specific situations.

    • @nataliasoares225
      @nataliasoares225 Месяц назад

      Exactly. Also pronouns, articles, prepositions, and conjunctions in most languages are usually short words. In Chinese (in which most words have one or two characters) the most used is 的, which is word that links any kind of attribution to a noun or clause, so its needed a lot.

  • @carval2001
    @carval2001 4 года назад +1767

    Poet: "The of and to a in is I that it for you was with on as have but be they"
    English teachers: SO INSPIRATIONAL

    • @explodamite
      @explodamite 4 года назад +29

      it really is, right??

    • @Solteratube
      @Solteratube 4 года назад +15

      Works for me.

    • @yousufansari4962
      @yousufansari4962 4 года назад +1

      @Hubert Farnsworth lmaooooooooooo

    • @carval2001
      @carval2001 4 года назад +3

      @Hubert Farnsworth its a joke lol

    • @tommytwotacos8106
      @tommytwotacos8106 4 года назад +4

      Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

  • @recrucity
    @recrucity 5 лет назад +1950

    The most used word people use while watching VSauce:
    “What?”

    • @geometryjosh21
      @geometryjosh21 5 лет назад +65

      The most used phrase in vsauce videos is: or is it... OR IS IT . . .

    • @lewwylemons
      @lewwylemons 5 лет назад +7

      @@geometryjosh21 vacuse? (edit: congrats you fixed it) (edit again: actually you didn't its vsauce not vsause)

    • @embee5375
      @embee5375 5 лет назад +10

      Haha I just added this video to my playlist called "What?"

    • @BronsonSelf
      @BronsonSelf 5 лет назад +2

      And that's crazy

    • @rainbowlemew
      @rainbowlemew 5 лет назад +5

      The word least used while watching Vsauce: FBI, open up.

  • @denisdrc5836
    @denisdrc5836 5 лет назад +3508

    Once you've read the dictionary, every other book is just a remix

    • @isleofbirb
      @isleofbirb 5 лет назад +323

      Denis DRC once you’ve seen the alphabet, every other word is just a remix

    • @whiteslate
      @whiteslate 5 лет назад +229

      Isle of Birbs once you’ve seen a straight line, every written letter is just a remix

    • @curiousman4452
      @curiousman4452 5 лет назад +239

      @@whiteslate once you’ve seen a periodic table, the whole world is just a remix

    • @RASHY616
      @RASHY616 5 лет назад +13

      Denis DRC woaahhh

    • @x_Fr0stee_x
      @x_Fr0stee_x 5 лет назад +120

      @@curiousman4452 once you've seen matter and energy, the whole observable universe is just a remix.

  • @Даймон-ф8щ
    @Даймон-ф8щ 5 месяцев назад +3

    I can watch these videos every month, and still find them interesting. Just love the way Michael explains all this stuff

    • @Dalton906J
      @Dalton906J 5 месяцев назад +2

      Honestly, same

  • @mathiaspampus813
    @mathiaspampus813 4 года назад +1176

    [WARNING: "read more" will extend this to 871 lines]
    Hi everyone, I know it's a little late, but I just watched it and actually wondered if this video itself would show signs of zipf-iness.
    So I took the transcript and processed it a little. Some info upfront:
    I sliced things like "power-law" and "day-to-day basis" into completely separate words
    I kept the distinction between singular an plural of the same word, as well as all the conjugations
    I stripped words of possessive suffixes (languages' to languages; word's to word)
    I extended abbreviated forms of "is", "have" etc. to full length (I've to I have; can't to can not; etc.)
    I kept digits as digits, numbers as well, I did, however, separate "ten", "hundred", "thousand" etc. if they were terminating a number (30 thousand; 181 million)
    So here are the results, draw your own conclusions:
    Word count total : 2,885 (2,308 = 80%)
    Word count unique: 853 (171 = 20%)
    Hapax legomena: 514
    First 20% of most common words are used 1998 times total
    which is 71% of the total word count.
    Words used only once make 64% of the unique word count
    and 18% of the total word count.
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    the: 164
    of: 103
    a: 84
    is: 73
    and: 72
    in: 53
    to: 51
    that: 47
    it: 46
    words: 31
    percent: 30
    are: 29
    word: 27
    as: 27
    for: 25
    used: 22
    we: 21
    but: 21
    be: 20
    Zipf: 20
    about: 19
    or: 19
    more: 18
    not: 18
    one: 17
    I: 17
    this: 16
    have: 16
    will: 16
    often: 16
    on: 16
    you: 16
    most: 15
    so: 14
    language: 14
    law: 13
    just: 13
    even: 12
    what: 12
    20: 12
    get: 12
    if: 12
    by: 12
    there: 12
    all: 11
    letter: 11
    way: 11
    up: 11
    can: 10
    out: 10
    at: 10
    when: 10
    has: 10
    world: 10
    was: 9
    0: 8
    how: 8
    them: 8
    they: 8
    80: 8
    principle: 8
    said: 8
    many: 8
    according: 8
    things: 8
    some: 8
    does: 8
    appear: 7
    from: 7
    number: 7
    than: 7
    which: 7
    only: 7
    point: 7
    much: 7
    these: 7
    English: 7
    like: 7
    every: 6
    26: 6
    Pareto: 6
    times: 6
    corpus: 6
    been: 6
    few: 6
    once: 6
    languages: 5
    here: 5
    something: 5
    after: 5
    eighty: 5
    least: 5
    half: 5
    frequency: 5
    likely: 5
    typing: 5
    result: 5
    randomly: 5
    also: 5
    spacebar: 5
    (RUclips won't actually let me post the whole thing XD so here's the 100 most common words)

    • @netkid5460
      @netkid5460 4 года назад +94

      this is actually amazing

    • @Vannila17
      @Vannila17 4 года назад +57

      Thank you for taking the time to do this! I was wondering myself!!

    • @yuzdude5220
      @yuzdude5220 4 года назад +25

      Thanks for the work!
      I too was curious about the video’s zipf-iness

    • @nicolae3657
      @nicolae3657 4 года назад +18

      Wow, lets get this comment in the top, bdw god job

    • @mathiaspampus813
      @mathiaspampus813 4 года назад +20

      @Chode Blowsonn He says some words a whole lot more often than you'd usually do, but that's also part of Michael's style, I guess.
      I believe it's the total word count that causes this deviation from the perfect ratio. I mean the curve is there, a lot like the one in the video, it just doesn't quite match because, I think, there's not enough words to get a good average.

  • @5udimax
    @5udimax 4 года назад +248

    20:06 "I cannot remember the Vsauce videos I have watched any more than the meals I have eaten. Even so, they have made me."

    • @N0URii
      @N0URii 4 года назад +3

      yes

  • @crudboy12
    @crudboy12 5 лет назад +425

    I love how Michal singlehandedly revived "Quizatiously"

    • @adonis22_75
      @adonis22_75 5 лет назад +17

      I'm three months in the future of this comment...and now there's a website, subriddet, wiki page, and a Utube music video...

    • @elijahzufalligeanordnung1843
      @elijahzufalligeanordnung1843 4 года назад

      Alexander Supertramp r/woooooooosh

    • @emiliadg3939
      @emiliadg3939 4 года назад +1

      @@elijahzufalligeanordnung1843 lolol riddet are www.reddit.com/r/wooooooos u just got wooshed!!!

    • @cuz9892
      @cuz9892 9 месяцев назад

      umm... please spell the word correctly you goober

  • @happyvirus6590
    @happyvirus6590 Месяц назад +4

    5:50 the thumb is (usually) 20% of a hand

  • @msc5070
    @msc5070 6 лет назад +1006

    I have a really difficult time remembering the rate at which we forget

    • @matmirza5376
      @matmirza5376 6 лет назад +22

      I'll quote that

    • @abandonedaccount7799
      @abandonedaccount7799 5 лет назад +20

      Hold on there a second

    • @timrockman7
      @timrockman7 5 лет назад +14

      I was going to reply to your comment, but forgot what I was thinking.

    • @Joe-cz1tt
      @Joe-cz1tt 5 лет назад +5

      Once I told the philosophy teacher that I forgot my homework at home(which I did). He said that the human forgets due to the lack of intrest and.... 10mins talking the he says that next year we will take a lesson about that. Why on earth do people even need philosophy what in the world it's just some chitchat

    • @ChangedNames
      @ChangedNames 5 лет назад +3

      Ahmad Kashmar
      I wish if i have philosophy in my school

  • @no-lk9gb
    @no-lk9gb 3 года назад +862

    Vsauce: "Take a bunch of paper clips and grab any two at random."
    "But what is random?"

    • @rogersherman9077
      @rogersherman9077 3 года назад +19

      That process of choosing is not random, it is arbitrary.

    • @brainbirdtm
      @brainbirdtm 3 года назад +28

      ... And how much does it weigh?

    • @dat2ra
      @dat2ra 3 года назад +9

      What is "vsauce"?

    • @Glisten456
      @Glisten456 3 года назад +14

      Or:
      “Hey, VSauce, Michael here, and I just said a sentence.
      But what is the meaning of existence?”

    • @littletimelord2755
      @littletimelord2755 3 года назад +6

      “Hey Vsause, Michal here. But what is a sauce, and how much does it weigh? Also, why am I Michel? And how am I… here (music kicks in)”

  • @damonjackson5857
    @damonjackson5857 6 лет назад +2811

    I want vsauce videos back

    • @tgilliesuit3269
      @tgilliesuit3269 6 лет назад +14

      same

    • @carlaceciliaxx
      @carlaceciliaxx 6 лет назад +26

      I mean if you have RUclips red, they're a thing

    • @Knjaz_Zlogrd
      @Knjaz_Zlogrd 6 лет назад +63

      @@carlaceciliaxx Unless RUclips red is not available in your country... :/

    • @carlaceciliaxx
      @carlaceciliaxx 6 лет назад +33

      @@Knjaz_Zlogrd now that's actually really sad damn my condolences

    • @carlaceciliaxx
      @carlaceciliaxx 6 лет назад +2

      @Derpnershly yeah I mentioned that too lol

  • @irenecheca6575
    @irenecheca6575 Год назад +2

    Thank you for all the resources you posted in the description, much appreciated. Gonna try to use your video in my class on Language Variation and Change.

  • @zenkarious6540
    @zenkarious6540 4 года назад +307

    "I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I've eaten. Even so, they have made me."
    I love this quote. You always give me something fun to think about and we can see that you've put a lot of effort into these videos! I appreciate the amount of work you put in instead of just littering us with quick effortless videos.
    Thank you Michael!

    • @mynameisnotjeff4184
      @mynameisnotjeff4184 4 года назад +2

      "And as always, thanks for watching"

    • @gaswe9236
      @gaswe9236 4 года назад

      when he said that quote i legitimately cried

  • @twodogstar2565
    @twodogstar2565 2 года назад +3015

    It's extremely hilarious to read the list of 100 most used words in order and try to sound like you're actually trying to explain something to someone

    • @earlbilbrey8058
      @earlbilbrey8058 2 года назад +117

      But it is kinda eerie to think about it as a comprehensible statement of some sort. Kind of thinking of it as an unarguable statement that we are all collectively making. 🤔

    • @macizogalaico
      @macizogalaico Год назад +89

      @@earlbilbrey8058 every couple of days someone, somewhere, invents dadaist poetry again

    • @frogg_tv4774
      @frogg_tv4774 Год назад +10

      it does sound like when i try to explain things to someone-

    • @SteeZy644
      @SteeZy644 Год назад +34

      Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

    • @Zip.Izayus.Priyancara_FPE
      @Zip.Izayus.Priyancara_FPE Год назад

      TOATAIIITIFYWWOAHBBT

  • @rohitsinha3600
    @rohitsinha3600 2 года назад +1546

    I love how he says the most used words in English as if it's a sentence of a good ol' English poem.

    • @RudyHHOfficial
      @RudyHHOfficial Год назад +14

      i am not sayin' most script'd

    • @UnclePengy
      @UnclePengy Год назад +16

      Verily, t'was iambic pentameter!

    • @Qaptyl
      @Qaptyl Год назад +6

      ye olde english poem

  • @UndreamtJoker7
    @UndreamtJoker7 5 месяцев назад +2

    @9:43 Wow -- just amazing. I learned something new and amazing today from Michael "Two letter words appear when, after beginning a word, any character but the space bar is hit"
    Groundbreaking

  • @Lucy-fn9rj
    @Lucy-fn9rj 2 года назад +2794

    rewatching old vsauce videos is super cool. when i first watched this 6 years ago, my mind was blown. today, i’ve learned so much more about statistics and math that everything he says makes intuitive sense to me, no explanation needed. it’s just awesome to have a marker of how far i’ve come, from high school to now getting a master’s in statistics

    • @RapidVidsProductions
      @RapidVidsProductions 2 года назад +55

      hello yes i am also a random person on youtube in the comments section and i must say that ivebeen to the moon 4 times and mars twice. i have a master's in space stuff. i walked with Buzz Aspirin

    • @Lucy-fn9rj
      @Lucy-fn9rj 2 года назад +205

      @@RapidVidsProductions i’m very flattered that you think starting a masters in statistics is comparable to space travel

    • @pointkablan198
      @pointkablan198 2 года назад +14

      @@Lucy-fn9rj noice 🤣🤣

    • @pointkablan198
      @pointkablan198 2 года назад +39

      @@RapidVidsProductions not all people have your problem mate

    • @westongrant1702
      @westongrant1702 2 года назад +13

      I feel the same way, personally having gone from being in middle school to being a linguistics student in university

  • @honeyblaze6177
    @honeyblaze6177 6 лет назад +1961

    Top 51 words from this video:
    "the" - 164 times
    "of" - 103 times
    "a" - 84 times
    "and" - 73 times
    "in" - 53 times
    "is" - 51 times
    "to" - 50 times
    "that" - 47 times
    "it" - 46 times
    "words" - 31 times
    "are" - 28 times
    "as" - 28 times
    "word" - 26 times
    "for" - 25 times
    "used" - 22 times
    "but" - 21 times
    "be" - 20 times
    "zipf" - 20 times
    "or" - 19 times
    "we" - 19 times
    "about" - 19 times
    "more" - 18 times
    "I" - 17 times
    "one" - 17 times
    "often" - 16 times
    "you" - 16 times
    "on" - 16 times
    "this" - 16 times
    "percent" - 15 times
    "most" - 15 times
    "language" - 14 times
    "so" - 14 times
    "will" - 14 times
    "just" - 13 times
    "get" - 12 times
    "law" - 12 times
    "what" - 12 times
    "by" - 12 times
    "even" - 12 times
    "there" - 12 times
    "if" - 12 times
    "way" - 11 times
    "have" - 11 times
    "all" - 11 times
    "up" - 11 times
    "world" - 10 times
    "has" - 10 times
    "letter" - 10 times
    "when" - 10 times
    "at" - 10 times
    "out" - 10 times

    • @moar.mp4268
      @moar.mp4268 6 лет назад +22

      Honeyblaze cool

    • @cCFXskd3dE8BKTE4ZLhVDmyJKSFIxH
      @cCFXskd3dE8BKTE4ZLhVDmyJKSFIxH 6 лет назад +73

      Did you read all the words of this video and do this?

    • @dubkill1160
      @dubkill1160 6 лет назад +191

      If you really took the time to watch this video and make this list i salute you. RESPECT +++

    • @honeyblaze6177
      @honeyblaze6177 6 лет назад +371

      Not quite, I took the subtitle file and used a website to count all the words. Still wasted more time than I probably should have, lol

    • @dubkill1160
      @dubkill1160 6 лет назад +63

      Well still impressive :D

  • @awaken6760
    @awaken6760 9 лет назад +1658

    20% of this video left me 80% confused.

    • @ToddFarenbourgh
      @ToddFarenbourgh 9 лет назад +88

      80% of this video contained 20% of the Information :-D

    • @mozillafoxer8489
      @mozillafoxer8489 9 лет назад +13

      +Simon Tiersch *cough* the *cough* other *cough* way *cough* around *cough*

    • @ThePlumAbides
      @ThePlumAbides 9 лет назад +19

      20% of this comment contains 80% of my reply

    • @CorieandMosesVideos
      @CorieandMosesVideos 9 лет назад +2

      +Simon Tiersch Lol! Or is it that 80% of the information was given in 20% of the video? .> 0.0

    • @Gabu_
      @Gabu_ 9 лет назад +1

      +Kevin Simmons uhhhhh... pls, help. I'm stuck inside my mind now, and I can't find the way out.

  • @giulioiannelli9556
    @giulioiannelli9556 Год назад +3

    You should have counted the words used in the video

  • @Silvertarian
    @Silvertarian 8 лет назад +3696

    Explains why 20% of employees do 80% of the work.

    • @joeyrozic1100
      @joeyrozic1100 8 лет назад +6

      +Bulkbs Jokes

    • @John----Smith
      @John----Smith 8 лет назад +15

      +Bulkbs because they must follow pareto's law, which is a management directive in almost all companies.

    • @AlterVayne
      @AlterVayne 8 лет назад +20

      +Walders1 It doesn't. Here we have 20% of the EMPLOYEES and 80% of the WORK, These are separate objects. You cannot sum up two percentages of different objects.

    • @Italianchef26
      @Italianchef26 8 лет назад +18

      +Bulkbs It makes sense to me. A small quantity of workers (a small quantity of words) are responsible of a large quantity of work (make up most of what we say). I know it was intended as a joke but the rule still stands I guess...

    • @foil767
      @foil767 8 лет назад +1

      Communism...

  • @iwllkllyoo1
    @iwllkllyoo1 9 лет назад +5264

    so, theoretically, 80% of views on RUclips are on 20% of the videos?

    • @RetroLPGames
      @RetroLPGames 9 лет назад +795

      +Thadeus Crimson And - theoretically - 80% of views on RUclips are made by 20% of the users.
      I wonder if there actually is official data about it, shouldn't be to hard for Google to get it...

    • @peterseagrave4051
      @peterseagrave4051 9 лет назад +624

      80% of the videos are created by 20% of users. Well, in theory.

    • @markwelschmeyer2426
      @markwelschmeyer2426 9 лет назад +112

      +Thadeus Crimson and like 8% on Gandom Style

    • @markwelschmeyer2426
      @markwelschmeyer2426 9 лет назад +104

      +Thadeus Crimson this could also mean that the "top" you tube commenter comments twice as next as the 2nd.

    • @kaskade333
      @kaskade333 9 лет назад +68

      I read somewhere that 99% of the views are on 30% of the videos

  • @kabronero
    @kabronero 2 года назад +978

    11:27 this fake ending is probably my favorite youtube moment. I love Vsauce so much.

    • @julius_1200
      @julius_1200 Год назад +53

      Yes. 18:04 is great too lol

    • @Wmann
      @Wmann Год назад +30

      I genuinely fell for that, despite falling for it already a few times already

    • @segganew
      @segganew Год назад +3

      I fell for it too

    • @danielpl8535
      @danielpl8535 Год назад

      vsauce doesn't provide fake content, you can stf

    • @servvo
      @servvo Год назад +4

      as the music kicks in, i instantly remembered 'as always, thanks for waaaaaiiiiit a minute...'

  • @slide0549
    @slide0549 Год назад +9

    This one video made the results for quizzaciously go from one to ~4,420 in 7 years.

  • @hellfun1337
    @hellfun1337 9 лет назад +406

    The use of "quizzaciously" just rose by at least a billion percent.

    • @hellfun1337
      @hellfun1337 9 лет назад +7

      I was close

    • @julianwright7207
      @julianwright7207 9 лет назад +22

      6 million is not close to 1000000000

    • @EternalxWar
      @EternalxWar 9 лет назад +4

      +Julian Wright lt is when you think relatively, considering 1000000000 is far closer to 6000000 than it is to even twice itself.

    • @griffin4cats
      @griffin4cats 9 лет назад

      +Worst Girl Google says it rose by 108,000% now.

    • @mustafakamal8608
      @mustafakamal8608 9 лет назад

      +Worst Girl all the site came from 4 days ago

  • @arjaycook7612
    @arjaycook7612 4 года назад +1120

    What really messed me up is the realization that 80% of your memories come from 20% of your life.

    • @Zilicon
      @Zilicon 4 года назад +40

      20% of your memories come from 80% of your life

    • @Ndulin
      @Ndulin 4 года назад +59

      That is exactly the same thing
      if 20% of memories come from 80% of life, there are still
      80% of memories left from the 20% of life remaining

    • @rulerworld1289
      @rulerworld1289 4 года назад +3

      Stole my comment😡

    • @arjaycook7612
      @arjaycook7612 4 года назад +10

      @@rulerworld1289 Sorry, didn't see it.

    • @sprtrnds7880
      @sprtrnds7880 4 года назад +3

      @@Ndulin I'm pretty sure that's what he meant

  • @coolerman_13
    @coolerman_13 2 года назад +1345

    "by focusing on 20% of what's wrong, you can expect to solve 80% of the problems" mind blown

    • @Aranwaar
      @Aranwaar Год назад +98

      I focused on 40% now i solved 160% of my problems

    • @tomomalley50
      @tomomalley50 Год назад +60

      @@AranwaarNoob, I’m doing 100% for 400%

    • @tomomalley50
      @tomomalley50 Год назад

      @@phil_bean shut up

    • @venga3
      @venga3 Год назад +15

      But being able to identify what that priority 20% should be is the real key.

    • @mouminysn
      @mouminysn 9 месяцев назад +10

      It's not ANY 20% but a specific 20%.

  • @boredboardgamerkramer
    @boredboardgamerkramer 5 месяцев назад +5

    This video single-handedly made "quizzaciously" the third most popular word in the English language

  • @PhobeBarrymore
    @PhobeBarrymore 9 лет назад +545

    I took a break from doing homework to watch a Vsauce video. I learned more from this video than the curriculum my teacher will "teach" all year.

    • @SSC0002
      @SSC0002 9 лет назад +121

      Maybe because 20% of the things we know have come from 80% of Vsauce videos

    • @Vsauce
      @Vsauce  9 лет назад +106

      +Chowder12345able Paret-OH YOU :D

    • @SSC0002
      @SSC0002 9 лет назад +39

      Vsauce And my day just became exponentially more enjoyable😃

    • @_l3018
      @_l3018 9 лет назад

      I know what you're talking about :D

    • @mubashirsoomro6
      @mubashirsoomro6 9 лет назад +11

      no sir you just pay more attention to what he says than what your teacher says

  • @Taylcn
    @Taylcn 8 лет назад +577

    if you check his descriptions, you can see how much research he does. He did more research than me in all of my projects combined.

    • @kayleighmiller285
      @kayleighmiller285 8 лет назад +22

      lol true

    • @glovesforsocks4603
      @glovesforsocks4603 7 лет назад +6

      that's in music alone

    • @ntlnproductions7269
      @ntlnproductions7269 7 лет назад +13

      I pressed "show more" and saw the first section of research. I thought HA! only 15 sources, that's not too many... and then I scrolled down.

    • @aiden9001
      @aiden9001 7 лет назад +17

      Michael's Teacher "Make sure you list at least 3 sources!" Michael "OK"

    • @draketungsten74
      @draketungsten74 7 лет назад +15

      Naturally, because 20% of the people do 80% of the research.

  • @joseplayer2144
    @joseplayer2144 4 года назад +204

    18:08 i love that he knows he’s a meme

  • @Reinhard_G.1965
    @Reinhard_G.1965 Год назад +2

    "80% of the help you need is given
    by just 20% of your friends --
    and only these deserve to be
    called a _real_ friend ..."

  • @sawyergipson8548
    @sawyergipson8548 6 лет назад +1152

    Let's break the system and all say "sauce" about 1 million times a day.

    • @o.m.p.h.4483
      @o.m.p.h.4483 6 лет назад +51

      Colonel Sawyer sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce ecuas sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce nuts sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce sauce

    • @Scott-on2er
      @Scott-on2er 6 лет назад +3

      sauce

    • @alexchap7744
      @alexchap7744 6 лет назад +60

      Colonel Sawyer wouldn’t sauce just get higher on the list an take some other words place

    • @TheLuckyTitan
      @TheLuckyTitan 6 лет назад +45

      Thats the point alex

    • @TheFapFactory
      @TheFapFactory 6 лет назад +2

      Sauce

  • @Xheooon
    @Xheooon 5 лет назад +372

    I’m still finding Vsauce videos I haven’t yet watched, videos uploaded years ago.

    • @hairyputter5363
      @hairyputter5363 4 года назад +16

      You haven't used the most used word in your comment.
      You are God

    • @Propulus
      @Propulus 4 года назад +3

      I'm just watching all of them again over and over...

    • @skirdus367
      @skirdus367 4 года назад +3

      I'm finding Vsauce videos I thought I hadn't watched, but I was proven wrong via indication of a like.

    • @turquoise7817
      @turquoise7817 4 года назад

      @@skirdus367 i guess this was one of the things you forgot, even though it had a strong enough effect on you to like it

    • @FlexBeanbag
      @FlexBeanbag 4 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/Bmc9NFfhx74/видео.html

  • @Calluxus907AK43
    @Calluxus907AK43 3 года назад +222

    I think I’ll be coming back to this every now and then.

    • @RicchieWrath
      @RicchieWrath 3 года назад +6

      Indeed. I watch this every few months.

    • @canalalex0119
      @canalalex0119 3 года назад +13

      80% of watches maybe are by the 20% who revisits it

    • @prab4956
      @prab4956 3 года назад

      69th like

  • @vl5008
    @vl5008 4 месяца назад

    I’m glad I’m just watching Mr. Michael Vsauce’s longer content now. It’s 1) actually helpful to me holy moly. and 2) so enriching and awesome. I have a whole library of stuff to watch from this cool guy.

  • @Riurelia
    @Riurelia 3 года назад +502

    0:27 I love how my brain is trying to make sense of this as if it were a sentence.

    • @enjybadran7876
      @enjybadran7876 3 года назад +16

      My Brain Does The Same Thing

    • @butterflyexists
      @butterflyexists 3 года назад +4

      you are your brain

    • @omoldugrene7857
      @omoldugrene7857 3 года назад +1

      @@butterflyexists you are IN your brain

    • @luciussalcedo3731
      @luciussalcedo3731 3 года назад +2

      @@omoldugrene7857 actually we're a brain controlling a meat bag

    • @omoldugrene7857
      @omoldugrene7857 3 года назад +1

      @@luciussalcedo3731 you control you brain and you brain controls a bag of meat,

  • @spastek5351
    @spastek5351 5 лет назад +1919

    Is there a book that is un-zipfy on purpose, do people feel strange reading it?

    • @willd2609
      @willd2609 5 лет назад +410

      This is a freakin cool idea. I wonder if it’s impossible?

    • @thebig0tt072
      @thebig0tt072 5 лет назад +413

      Will Dayble it isn’t impossible, But it’d look something like this: “Spaghetti tables... hats!...”

    • @ise1441
      @ise1441 5 лет назад +149

      @@thebig0tt072 there is a reason that articles, helping verbs, and pronouns, as these are some of the most important words we use to convey thoughts. It makes a little bit of sense that Zipf works the way it works for language.

    • @papiokok
      @papiokok 5 лет назад +81

      i dont think its possible... We are not zipfiying our writing style deliberately, its natural, so it would be impossible to construct a book(you could though, a sentence or a chapter) in an un-zipfy way. The book, the sentences just wouldnt mean anything they would have to be formed using english tense, and would zipf-fy it.

    • @SalamiSlice
      @SalamiSlice 5 лет назад +109

      Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright. Doesn't use the letter 'E' which is the most commonly used letter.
      No 'the' without 'thee'

  • @faereman
    @faereman 3 года назад +1058

    "80% of the subscribers are watching the videos, but only 20% of the watchers are actually subscribed."
    Source : 20% of the youtubers I watch who say it on 80% of their videos.

  • @charleslentz1962
    @charleslentz1962 Год назад +3

    8 years and Quizzaciously has gone from appearing in 1 google search result to 401,000. Neat.

  • @ChadMojito
    @ChadMojito 7 лет назад +1330

    This video is so fascinating. Month after month, I keep coming back to it. Kinda think it's Michael's masterpiece. Absolutely mesmerizing stuff.

    • @ChadMojito
      @ChadMojito 7 лет назад +5

      prashant sharma Yes, it most likely is.

    • @kylethomas7440
      @kylethomas7440 7 лет назад +11

      I know its one of my top 5 favorites, and it's my favorite of all his language-centered videos.

    • @skrillah6259
      @skrillah6259 7 лет назад +1

      its top 3 imo The juvenoia video is the best

    • @julianfritz4528
      @julianfritz4528 7 лет назад +4

      Really? I think he has better videos. No doubt an amazing video though.

    • @ChadMojito
      @ChadMojito 7 лет назад +7

      Well, what I meant to say is that this video of his is the one that blows my mind the most.

  • @natjp0rter630
    @natjp0rter630 6 лет назад +1309

    This looks like looks a programmer made the universe and didn't bother to make different patterns

    • @bignasty8816
      @bignasty8816 6 лет назад +43

      AKA God

    • @sciblastofficial9833
      @sciblastofficial9833 6 лет назад +28

      kel norris
      Sometimes even great people get lazy...

    • @varaknus9103
      @varaknus9103 6 лет назад +10

      Nah..It's the path of least resistance in our verbiage...Perhaps it's like how it's meant to be...Except that what it IS IS defined by what's not IT is i.e the unique, the strange -even if they occur but once, are special to the whole

    • @Clinias
      @Clinias 6 лет назад +5

      It is the Natural Law Macrocosm/Microcosm, "Things repeat throughout the spheres". www.academia.edu/1619468/Macrocosm_Microcosm

    • @TheEmolano
      @TheEmolano 6 лет назад +8

      "Fibonacci sequence"

  • @Mantulisme
    @Mantulisme 4 года назад +424

    2:46 I can't believe the word "Jose" is more frequent than the word "shapes".

    • @PunkZombie1300
      @PunkZombie1300 4 года назад +70

      What? No way, José.

    • @stevenlasch
      @stevenlasch 4 года назад +6

      Only 11 more times though

    • @santig8521
      @santig8521 4 года назад +14

      But at 2:11 cheltenham is used more than shelf

    • @tomat6362
      @tomat6362 4 года назад +4

      You haven't been in Los Angeles?

    • @Skelstoolbox
      @Skelstoolbox 4 года назад +2

      Have you seen the hispanic population in america? It's a nation within a nation... And I'm not even american and I know that..

  • @Leander_
    @Leander_ 7 месяцев назад

    This is by far my favorite Vsauce episode of all time. It really feels like Michael digs deep into one concrete topic, all the while being tremendously poetic.

  • @TNCROCx
    @TNCROCx 4 года назад +1367

    zipfs law 🤝 fibonacci sequence : being everywhere

    • @nightmare3885
      @nightmare3885 4 года назад +13

      Wasnt it fibbonaci? My entire life was a lie

    • @Pal42_
      @Pal42_ 4 года назад +51

      @@nightmare3885 i have a theory that the Italian language and an English speaker's memory can't work together. Everytime someone tries to spell an Italian name it always ends up having double letters in the wrong spots

    • @CeleryBruh
      @CeleryBruh 4 года назад +21

      @@Pal42_ ferrari or ferarri?

    • @dylanpham9995
      @dylanpham9995 4 года назад +9

      Pareto’s principle: am I a joke to you?

    • @WellBeSerious12
      @WellBeSerious12 4 года назад +4

      That is an archaic and stupid system.

  • @NoahJohnson1810
    @NoahJohnson1810 5 лет назад +878

    2:10 are you telling me we use "cheltenham" more than "shelf"

    • @v6790
      @v6790 4 года назад +147

      I've never used that word in my life

    • @ellxsandranoratora
      @ellxsandranoratora 4 года назад +124

      What is that word even

    • @joshbothell151
      @joshbothell151 4 года назад +172

      Definitely an artifact of it pulling from Project Gutenberg, it contains a lot of fucky old language.

    • @TriangleV
      @TriangleV 4 года назад +136

      Josh Bothell “fucky old language” explains it pretty well.

    • @quack2390
      @quack2390 4 года назад +3

      Its a name

  • @brian4waste
    @brian4waste 6 лет назад +2419

    Sauce is the 5,555th most used word, and is a five letter word. V is 5 in Roman numerals. WHAT

  • @JosephRussellStapleton
    @JosephRussellStapleton 8 месяцев назад +7

    Michael: "A word that is used only once in a given selection of words...
    Me: *HaPaX LeGoMeNoN!!!!!*
    Michael: "... is called a hapax legomenon."
    Me: So _this_ is the video I learned that from!

  • @ChrisPoindexter98
    @ChrisPoindexter98 3 года назад +855

    One of the best and most transformative videos I ever saw when it came out. It so profoundly changes and clarifies your outlook on literally, legitimately just about everything.

    • @Ratchet2022
      @Ratchet2022 2 года назад +16

      This is thanks to data science and the innovation of the computer chip. We wouldn’t have been able to catalog all this data beforehand.

    • @ChrisPoindexter98
      @ChrisPoindexter98 2 года назад +22

      @@Ratchet2022 No kidding, or at least, be able to access this much knowledge so easily and quickly for so many of us!

    • @VokeVideo
      @VokeVideo 2 года назад +7

      I love his utter lack of floccinaucinihilipilification when it comes to knowledge.

    • @ChrisPoindexter98
      @ChrisPoindexter98 2 года назад +7

      @@VokeVideo I appreciate the wiki dive I went into because of the neat word you used, but the overall meaning in this video is quite illuminating...how a few elements seem to, paradoxically, make up most of a data set. One small rough estimation of a example...around 20 words constitute nearly 80% of all those regularly used in the English language.
      I found this especially informative for how such a mathematical principle can seem to influence the popularity, humanity wide knowledge level of a subject, like some incredibly famous person, or how wealth that is left to build by itself and isn't shared much gets concentrated into the hands of very few individuals and entities.
      What I described just now is not very brief for a summary or abstract, but if you feel his video is too extraneous and meandering beyond the sources he uses and gives, this might help.

    • @elmondo-s1e
      @elmondo-s1e 2 года назад +7

      @@ChrisPoindexter98 you touched on something that really hit me during this video, the idea that mathematical principals can be used to describe LANGUAGE baffles my brain (I’m a words person, not a natural maths person haha). It set a lightbulb off in my brain about how addicted. To patterns this universe is, and how addicted to spotting them we are as humans

  • @Luisp0t
    @Luisp0t 3 года назад +2311

    Where’s the ad?

  • @SmithDrewSmith
    @SmithDrewSmith 9 лет назад +464

    I downloaded the captions from this video, and after some extensive formatting I was able to count how many times the top 20 words (according to this video) were used in this video. Out of 2812 words, this is how many times each word occurred.
    the = 160, 5.69%
    of = 103, 3.663%
    and = 71, 2.525%
    to = 50, 1.778%
    a = 78, 2.774%
    in = 62, 2.205%
    is = 50, 1.778%
    I = 12, 0.427%
    that = 44, 1.565%
    it = 31, 1.102%
    for = 25, 0.889%
    you = 16, 0.569%
    was = 9, 0.32%
    with = 6, 0.213%
    on = 15, 0.533%
    as = 25, 0.889%
    have = 10, 0.356%
    but = 23, 0.818%
    be = 21, 0.747%
    they = 5, 0.178%
    The RUclips automated closed captioning is far, far from perfect, but I think it's probably reasonable to use it for this rough experiment.
    Why do you guys think the words here didn't follow the order listed in the video description?

    • @bringingtherukas7473
      @bringingtherukas7473 9 лет назад +11

      +Drew Smith Perhaps it was intentional,

    • @SmithDrewSmith
      @SmithDrewSmith 9 лет назад +9

      +bringingtherukas
      I was wondering that as well. Sometimes it did seem like he was speaking very intentionally. I also wonder if it has anything to do with it not being conversational, or a narrative story, or other common forms of communication?

    • @SmithDrewSmith
      @SmithDrewSmith 9 лет назад +54

      +bringingtherukas
      It's also a relatively tiny sample, so variations are to be expected.

    • @Dylanson3
      @Dylanson3 9 лет назад +9

      +Drew Smith maybe because he changed the subject a few times ??? perhaps haha

    • @Tazer0
      @Tazer0 9 лет назад +8

      Sir Michael, you've gained yourself some serious fans O_O

  • @titusg4247
    @titusg4247 6 месяцев назад

    This has been my favorite video for years and I think it always will be. Michael is amazing. The way he carries his speech just draws you in. He could make _anything_ interesting.

  • @nownothingwillbewrong2958
    @nownothingwillbewrong2958 5 лет назад +2616

    0:27 me talking to a girl be like

    • @geoffreyloaiza8281
      @geoffreyloaiza8281 5 лет назад +49

      Omg lol

    • @hunterobrian7761
      @hunterobrian7761 5 лет назад +69

      that makes two of us

    • @FestivalofFreaks
      @FestivalofFreaks 5 лет назад +99

      Me trying to talk to anyone

    • @warwick802
      @warwick802 5 лет назад +5

      Lmao

    • @twistedgwazi5727
      @twistedgwazi5727 5 лет назад +25

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAN FUNNY RELATABLE XDDDDDD 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @thomashara7760
    @thomashara7760 4 года назад +1619

    "The" appeared 131 times in this video

    • @mjams231
      @mjams231 4 года назад +168

      So does that mean the second most used word in this video occurred 65.5 times?

    • @porchcollapse8612
      @porchcollapse8612 4 года назад +55

      Mason Chamberlain approximately

    • @mcsk6791
      @mcsk6791 4 года назад +195

      he use the word “a” 66 times

    • @leoirias3506
      @leoirias3506 4 года назад +32

      @@mcsk6791 interesting, whats the third most used word

    • @pepperpoop7729
      @pepperpoop7729 4 года назад +67

      glad you have so much free time to count this

  • @lmao5
    @lmao5 8 лет назад +1111

    Who else is binge watching his videos at 3 AM

    • @elishahahn3064
      @elishahahn3064 8 лет назад +8

      I'm not right now, but that's what I did when I first found his channel.

    • @vargabazsaa
      @vargabazsaa 8 лет назад +3

      i just found it and i'm doing it right now, although it's only 11:25

    • @2Storyz
      @2Storyz 8 лет назад +3

      wow....I am. What are the odds of me deciding to read comments and on this video, find this comment

    • @atalkingpoptart8610
      @atalkingpoptart8610 8 лет назад +3

      xur, you better bring something good this weekend

    • @tristampratorius4709
      @tristampratorius4709 8 лет назад +1

      Xur, You play Destiny? ME TOO! :D

  • @MAJ0ROCEL0T
    @MAJ0ROCEL0T 10 месяцев назад +1

    I come back to this video often. Its honestly so existentially comforting somehow.

    • @BitcoinAndChess
      @BitcoinAndChess 10 месяцев назад

      Andrei Jikh just did a video showing a newly discovered Power Law: Bitcoin. It's price is predictable. Check it out.