Can You Accurately Guess? Healthcare Quotes. Obama v. Romney

[Lunar]

Well, I have the answers in front of me and I've tried to double check each one I've done.  I sent them to you to see where the error is.

Polling is open another 24 hours!

[Lunar]

Lunar, I think you screwed up on some of the grading here.  Pretty sure you need to do a recount on at least one of the following:

Vepres, BRTD, Nik, Marokai Blue

I know because I actually tried to work out the answer based purely on the scores you were giving out to people who had already answered, but I ran into a contradiction.  One of your scores must be wrong.

I checked them all again and the scores seem correct, let me know if you see otherwise. 

[Mr. Morden]

Lunar, I think you screwed up on some of the grading here.  Pretty sure you need to do a recount on at least one of the following:

Vepres, BRTD, Nik, Marokai Blue

I know because I actually tried to work out the answer based purely on the scores you were giving out to people who had already answered, but I ran into a contradiction.  One of your scores must be wrong.

I checked them all again and the scores seem correct, let me know if you see otherwise. 

Vepres got 6 out of 10, not 7 out of 10.

With that correction, I think it's possible for one to reason out all the answers, based on the answers given so far, and your scores.  For starters, Marokai Blue's score proves that 6 of the quotes are Romney and 4 are Obama.  From there, one can start to work out which is which.  (For example, based on Nik's score of 2, it's obvious that all of his Obama guesses were wrong.)

[Psychic Octopus]

Ouch.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

1. Romney
2. Obama
3. Romney
4. Romney
5. Romney
6. Romney
7. Obama
8. Obama
9. Obama
10. Romney

[Lunar]

for the record:

1      Romney
2      Obama
3      Obama
4      Obama
5      Romney
6      Romney
7      Obama
8      Romney
9      Romney
10      Romney

4 out of 10

[Lunar]

1. Romney
2. Obama
3. Romney
4. Romney
5. Romney
6. Romney
7. Obama
8. Obama
9. Obama
10. Romney

6 out of 10 correct.

With the corrections of Vpres's score, no one has been able to score more than 1 guess better than coin flips.

The underlying point of all of this is that Obama's healthcare reform isn't that radical.  It could be severely flawed policy, but ideologically, it's not that crazy.  It actually looks a lot like Republican counter-proposals in 1993.

[Bacon King]

my guess was ORRORORROR

[Lunar]

Lunar, I think you screwed up on some of the grading here.  Pretty sure you need to do a recount on at least one of the following:

Vepres, BRTD, Nik, Marokai Blue

I know because I actually tried to work out the answer based purely on the scores you were giving out to people who had already answered, but I ran into a contradiction.  One of your scores must be wrong.

I checked them all again and the scores seem correct, let me know if you see otherwise. 

Vepres got 6 out of 10, not 7 out of 10.

With that correction, I think it's possible for one to reason out all the answers, based on the answers given so far, and your scores.  For starters, Marokai Blue's score proves that 6 of the quotes are Romney and 4 are Obama.  From there, one can start to work out which is which.  (For example, based on Nik's score of 2, it's obvious that all of his Obama guesses were wrong.)

Of course it's possible to work backwards to figure out the correct answer to each.  You could also use Google to cheat as well.  The idea is to not cheat, however.

[Mr. Morden]

Lunar, I think you screwed up on some of the grading here.  Pretty sure you need to do a recount on at least one of the following:

Vepres, BRTD, Nik, Marokai Blue

I know because I actually tried to work out the answer based purely on the scores you were giving out to people who had already answered, but I ran into a contradiction.  One of your scores must be wrong.

I checked them all again and the scores seem correct, let me know if you see otherwise. 

Vepres got 6 out of 10, not 7 out of 10.

With that correction, I think it's possible for one to reason out all the answers, based on the answers given so far, and your scores.  For starters, Marokai Blue's score proves that 6 of the quotes are Romney and 4 are Obama.  From there, one can start to work out which is which.  (For example, based on Nik's score of 2, it's obvious that all of his Obama guesses were wrong.)

Of course it's possible to work backwards to figure out the correct answer to each.  You could also use Google to cheat as well.  The idea is to not cheat, however.

Yeah, I just thought it would be fun to see if I could work it out from the information in this thread.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Obama
Obama
Obama
Romney
Romney
Obama
Obama
Romney
Romney
Romney

[cannonia]

I guessed ORROROROOR, then looked it up.  Health Care is one of the reasons I have never liked Romney.

[Lunar]

Obama
Obama
Obama
Romney
Romney
Obama
Obama
Romney
Romney
Romney

3 right

[Antonio the Sixth]

Obama
Obama
Obama
Romney
Romney
Obama
Obama
Romney
Romney
Romney

3 right

Oh, damn...

[Јas]

OOOORRRROR

[Lunar]

OOOORRRROR

Seven right!

[Lunar]

the correct answers can be found here:

http://www.slate.com/id/2246733/sidebar/2246819/

my guess was ORRORORROR

8 correct out of 10 the best one.

[The Duke]

RORORROOOO

6 out of 10

[Lief 🗽]

The trick is that the quotes that sound kind of douchey and condescending are from Mittens, and the ones that sound like a professor trying to appear to be a working stiff but only kind of half-succeeding are from Barry.

OOROROROOR

[Gustaf]

I got 6/10. I think Lief got 8.