The Zipf Mystery

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/ electricpants
WordCount.org www.wordcount.org/
How many days have you been alive? www.beatcanvas.com/daysalive.asp
random letter generator: www.dave-reed.com/Nifty/randSe...
Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: / obscuresorrows
Word frequency resources:
[lemmatized] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_co...
www.uow.edu.au/~dlee/corpora.htm
www.wordfrequency.info
www.anc.org/data/anc-second-re...
www.titania.bham.ac.uk/docs/
www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readm...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktio...
ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/bncfreq/
[PDF] www.wordfrequency.info/files/e...
[combined Wikipedia and Gutenberg] www.monlp.com/2012/04/16/calcu...
corpus.byu.edu/coca/files/100k...
corpus.byu.edu/
corpus.leeds.ac.uk/list.html
books.google.co.uk/books?id=j...
www.ling.helsinki.fi/kit/2009s...
Great Zipf's law papers:
colala.bcs.rochester.edu/paper...
www.ling.upenn.edu/~ycharles/s...
arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0412004...
www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/c...
Zipf’s law articles and discussions:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/a...
io9.com/the-mysterious-law-tha...
plus.maths.org/content/os/lat...
judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/...
plus.maths.org/content/myster...
www.datasciencecentral.com/pro...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27...
other Zipf’s law PDFs
ftp.iza.org/dp3928.pdf
arxiv.org/pdf/1402.2965.pdf
arxiv.org/pdf/1104.3199.pdf
www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~jim/zipfjrh.pdf
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
polymer.bu.edu/hes/articles/pg...
in untranslated language: arxiv.org/pdf/0808.2904.pdf
pages.stern.nyu.edu/~xgabaix/p...
www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/pa...
statweb.stanford.edu/~owen/cou...
arxiv.org/pdf/1310.0448v3.pdf
www.kornai.com/Papers/glotto5.pdf
Zipf’s law slides:
www.slideshare.net/guest9fc47a...
Pareto Principle and related ‘laws’:
www.squawkpoint.com/2013/03/pa...
billyshall.com/blog/post/paret...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_...
Random typing and Zipf:
www.longtail.com/the_long_tail...
health 80/20: archive.ahrq.gov/research/find...
Principle of least effort:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princip...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfi...
www.pnas.org/content/100/3/788... [PDF]
csiss.org/classics/content/99
self organized criticality:
journal.frontiersin.org/articl...
Hapax Legomenon:
campus.albion.edu/english/2011...
www.dailywritingtips.com/is-th...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_l...
[PDF] www.aclweb.org/anthology/J10-4003
www.wired.com/2012/01/hapax-le...
oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/con...
oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/con...
Learning curve: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learnin...
Forgetting curve:
www.trainingindustry.com/wiki/...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgett...
Experience curve effects: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experie...
Forgetting
and zipf's law: act-r.psy.cmu.edu/wordpress/wp...
public.psych.iastate.edu/shaca...
marshalljonesjr.com/youll-reme...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting
/ it_only_takes_three_ge...
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@gemworm 4 года назад

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

@abeke5523 4 года назад

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

@_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ 4 года назад

Holy shit you’re right

@small_SHOT 4 года назад

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

@skthechef8075 4 года назад

Facts

@floofyliu8819 4 года назад

Big brain big brain

@finnberuldsen4798 8 лет назад

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

@manueldom123 8 лет назад

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

@samherport7586 8 лет назад

it really does mate

@veazix 8 лет назад

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

@oducks5820 8 лет назад

Its $20 worth of knowledge.

@joseph_lacy 8 лет назад

So true

@twodogstar2565 Год назад

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 Год назад

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 Год назад

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

@frogg_tv4774 Год назад

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

@SteeZy644 Год назад

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

@Thiesal-4 11 месяцев назад

TOATAIIITIFYWWOAHBBT

@rohitsinha3600 Год назад

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

@RudyHH2 Год назад

i am not sayin' most script'd

@UnclePengy 10 месяцев назад

Verily, t'was iambic pentameter!

@Qaptyl 8 месяцев назад

ye olde english poem

@harrys4698 8 лет назад

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

@Cpt_Crack 8 лет назад

Whoops

@LilLeanCuisine 8 лет назад

Nice one

@gavinwarner3480 8 лет назад

Savage

@bsigns1935 8 лет назад

nice...

@eraldylli 8 лет назад

He looks hot, well... warm.

@ladyalicent705 4 года назад

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

@obamabinladen4109 4 года назад

Lord Davrox more like 3% of the kids

@LilCheesyBean 4 года назад

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

@mmabagain 4 года назад

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

@GORNK 4 года назад

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

@charlesballiet7074 4 года назад

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

@coolerman_13 Год назад

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

@Aranwaar 9 месяцев назад

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

@tomomalley50 9 месяцев назад

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

@tomomalley50 7 месяцев назад

@@phil_bean shut up

@venga3 6 месяцев назад

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

@MouminDaherAbtidon Месяц назад

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

@PazEr80 5 месяцев назад

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.

@Vsauce 8 лет назад

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 8 лет назад

+Vsauce yes

@humvy23 8 лет назад

+Vsauce Thank you for your art Michael.

@antoinecedriccc2 8 лет назад

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

@ItsMatic 8 лет назад

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

@rayankhalil2495 8 лет назад

ummm okayy??? #FuckThisShitImOut

@Silvertarian 8 лет назад

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

@joeyrozic1100 8 лет назад

+Bulkbs Jokes

@John----Smith 8 лет назад

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

@AlterVayne 8 лет назад

+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 8 лет назад

+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 8 лет назад

Communism...

@mostlyghostey Год назад

I think one of the most wonderful things about our "Zipfian Mind" forgetting things, is the chance to experience them "like new" all over again. It's comforting to remember that even if you can't remember all of a book you read, you can have the joy of reading it again and being surprised by the things you forgot.

@jimmycryz Год назад

Same with Vsauce videos, I watched this video in 2018, 2020 and now in 2022 and I never remembered anything from the past viewings.

@monicarenee7949 Год назад

@@jimmycryz I remember watching this video before but couldn’t even remember it was about so I rewatched it

@kamilocastillo5816 11 месяцев назад

That's called nostalgia

@cherriberri8373 10 месяцев назад

My issue with that is then i just start remembering stuff as i read and so that isnt even true :(

@digletwithn 4 месяца назад

@mostlyghostey the = 6.9% (58 words total; 4 occurrences)

@lezbeehonest0294 11 месяцев назад

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-setun 3 месяца назад

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

@grfrjiglstan 8 лет назад

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

@seigeengine 8 лет назад

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

@AquariusRisen 8 лет назад

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

@Zerepzerreitug 8 лет назад

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

@artyknotswastaken 8 лет назад

+Arturo Gutierrez Ah, 327

@mariahmerry 8 лет назад

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

@Botpointo 2 года назад

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

@nicoyazawa2051 2 года назад

Damn

@KYR4T0NIN 2 года назад

Or the other way around since they don’t finish the project

@eclecticsoffy 2 года назад

It actually do be like that

@thomasbraeuning1918 2 года назад

e. g. one student

@_judge_me_not 2 года назад

15.4% of your sentence is "the"

@Darknight24x Год назад

Every time I see this video, I always forget that quote at the end. "I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I've eaten; even so, they have made me." Thank you Michael. 😊

@tuckerallen1421 4 часа назад

I forgot the quote was in this video. Just earlier today I quoted this to my therapist and said "I don't remember who said it but this quote stuck with me" 😭 thank you Michael

@colby722 8 месяцев назад

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

@d-bro5695 8 месяцев назад

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 5 дней назад

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

@awaken6760 8 лет назад

20% of this video left me 80% confused.

@ToddFarenbourgh 8 лет назад

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

@mozillafoxer8489 8 лет назад

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

@ThePlumAbides 8 лет назад

20% of this comment contains 80% of my reply

@CorieandMosesVideos 8 лет назад

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

@Gabu_ 8 лет назад

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

@evanmclellan9014 7 лет назад

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

@boozer01 7 лет назад

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

@bliss7470 6 лет назад

Your profile picture is very appropriate for your comment.

@mangetsuderdeutschgamer6580 6 лет назад

Nigga you too woke for me

@Whyolent 6 лет назад

tbh that is probably correct

@w00fsicle36 6 лет назад

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

@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667 Год назад

I cannot remember all the Vsauce videos I’ve seen any more than all the meals I’ve eaten, even so, they have made me. Thanks, Michael and your team for everything, and thanks to all of you human friends for everything the truth is that in spite of me, being a lonely person, I love every second that I pass with all of you. And as always thanks for making majestic videos Michael.

@GothicOctopus Год назад

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

@ibperson7765 7 месяцев назад

That IS a fun fact

@wthisthishandlething 7 месяцев назад

@@ibperson7765 indeed - who dosent like a good ending

@ibperson7765 6 месяцев назад

@@wthisthishandlething Word

@mlgeorge. 4 года назад

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

@ramananprv4756 4 года назад

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

@slinkerdeer 4 года назад

@@ramananprv4756 because this video is from 2015

@b4o450 4 года назад

But the comments are 3 days ago

@spadeney3722 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@Reivax2007 3 года назад

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

@person7038 3 года назад

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

@neeevirus 3 года назад

@@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 3 года назад

Ikr

@person7038 3 года назад

@@neeevirus Ik I was kidding

@neeevirus 3 года назад

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

@billyma6 Год назад

i always wondered how zipf would apply to languages like mandarin where it isn’t expressed in itemized components like letters

@chonpincher Год назад

There's a good paper on this at dsd.future-lab.cn/members/2015nlp/readings/zipf's%20law/JCLC_18(1).4.pdf

@ayellowllama9602 6 месяцев назад

Aren't characters itemised components?

@TheFrancesc18 6 дней назад

The principle would likely still apply. The fact it does would just be further proof the random keyboard hypothesis doesn't really explain it.

@coldguto Год назад

just finished a paper work for university, in which the teacher linked the basis of work as this exactly video. that's how important you and your crew are to us, michael.

@enderboy1824 4 года назад

“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

@sudokuzcalkami 4 года назад

sounds Shakespearean

@enderboy1824 4 года назад

@Vahe Mayilyan The almighty loaf

@enderboy1824 4 года назад

Vahe Mayilyan pretty old meme

@UrWifiIsSlow 4 года назад

It was mine too

@utkarsh3012 4 года назад

Or is it?

@sagesarrazine6270 3 года назад

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

@dollcefina 3 года назад

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

@4merly 3 года назад

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

@Nukestarmaster 3 года назад

"So long and thanks for all the fish"

@JL1009 3 года назад

@@sagesarrazine6270 16.

@-Danny 3 года назад

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.

@MatsueMusic 3 месяца назад

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

@johnkeogh4177 16 дней назад

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.

@jswp5 7 лет назад

80% of the information I take from these videos comes from the first 20% of the video

@hamimseam2591 7 лет назад

jswp5 ikr

@lennartweber2228 7 лет назад

jswp5 20% of the information i picked up here will stay in my mind, while i will forget 80% again. imagine watching this vid over and over again. u will never remember everything 100%. now think about the tv series sherlock. SUPER HUMAN PROVEN

@adamkowal4381 7 лет назад

all i need to know is how often the word sauce is used in english

@zanon__ 7 лет назад

Moist.

@cockbreath01 7 лет назад

2:08 you never even made it that far?

@iwllkllyoo1 8 лет назад

so, theoretically, 80% of views on RU-vid are on 20% of the videos?

@RetroLPGames 8 лет назад

+Thadeus Crimson And - theoretically - 80% of views on RU-vid 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 8 лет назад

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

@markwelschmeyer2426 8 лет назад

+Thadeus Crimson and like 8% on Gandom Style

@markwelschmeyer2426 8 лет назад

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

@kaskade333 8 лет назад

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

@irenecheca6575 6 месяцев назад

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.

@junbird 2 месяца назад

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.

@direwolf029 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

I think those "programmers" is just God

@thomasgreenhill2482 4 года назад

@@isore3090 naw god doesn't exist

@Christina-pq7kn 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

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

@ThatMumboJumbo 8 лет назад

This video made me uneasy for some reason.

@hailmusix5225 8 лет назад

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

@Fatherlake 8 лет назад

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

@morgancook4288 8 лет назад

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

@evren.builds 8 лет назад

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

@AdroSlice 8 лет назад

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

@thattimestampguy Год назад

7:15 Ease vs Understanding 11:42 Built Into Humanity 13:04 The Path Grows more common depending on how many people access it and how easy it is to access 15:47 50-100 Words frequently. Every other word 1 time. 18:37 Oleka

@JamesLewis2 Год назад

The note that the list of most frequent words is lemmatized should have made clear that this is only for verbs: The list still separates "a" and "an", "we" and "us", etc.

@ajr993 8 лет назад

80% of comments are created by 20% of users. Seems legit.

@M_Lars 8 лет назад

A lot may not have accounts...

@wow-jc4ez 8 лет назад

+Matthew Larsen user is disccusible word

@rashotcake6945 8 лет назад

20% of girls are fucked by 80% of guys

@robo3007 8 лет назад

+Rashotcake That is actually a statistic I've heard before

@rashotcake6945 8 лет назад

+Robin Powell how about 20% of my dick's length causes 80% of the pleasure a girl feels when I'm hooking up

@randomuser3053 2 года назад

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

@Alienguy500 Год назад

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

@shyeskyeskyeksye Год назад

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

@thaddeusphish4113 Год назад

@@shyeskyeskyeksye my brain is to broken to read this

@ROMANXA5 Год назад

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

@rickastley3033 Год назад

he'll answer 8 questions when asked only 2

@steveson129 7 месяцев назад

Fun fact : you can say the word "of" for this whole video sp that the graph changes from 1/2 to 1/2+x

@giulioiannelli9556 9 месяцев назад

You should have counted the words used in the video

@vidulab3977 5 лет назад

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 5 лет назад

•brain explodes•

@weichenplays 5 лет назад

The

@gressorialNanites 5 лет назад

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

@bursteh1135 5 лет назад

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

@zaxxro2547 5 лет назад

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

@TheCarolgibbons 5 лет назад

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

@nathanbullaft 4 года назад

Clever one 😂

@mariomaxy1140 4 года назад

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

@joelackers5104 4 года назад

Mario Maxy he could have 5 pieces of clothing

@edme8865 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@dannydacheedo1592 10 месяцев назад

18:07 to be fair, that sounds exactly like something Michael would say

@slide0549 Год назад

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

@denisdrc5836 4 года назад

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

@isleofbirb 4 года назад

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

@whiteslate 4 года назад

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

@curiousman4452 4 года назад

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

@RASHY616 4 года назад

Denis DRC woaahhh

@x_Fr0stee_x 4 года назад

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

@emzy_9442 3 года назад

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

@snoopydog1163 2 года назад

disturb the balance restore *sauce*

@newboy6736 2 года назад

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 2 года назад

Reject logic. Return to the 2009 YTP.

@xylobomb7527 2 года назад

I will do the same, but with *SUS*

@ahmed4363 2 года назад

Now add V

@func_e Год назад

This is why I love this channel. the rabbit holes never cease

@rezapanahi249 Год назад

Amazing. The paper clips part was mind-blowing.

@emilykalunga3510 4 года назад

Shakespeare: 0:27 people in 1610: 😍😍😍😍🙌🙌🙌😭😭😱😱

@mambodog5322 4 года назад

Also English teachers throughout the galaxy

@emilyrobinson1610 4 года назад

This made me laugh pretty hard

@elliotsmelliot 4 года назад

Holy shit bro this is honestly the best shit I’ve seen today

@calebmurray4438 4 года назад

Shakespeare: 0:27 English majors now: 😍😍😍😍🙌🙌🙌😭😭😱😱

@silverninja5218 4 года назад

Dam that poem spoke to me, everything that I or other people say cant surmount to this. That shit was fire!🔥🔥

@recrucity 5 лет назад

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

@geometryjosh21 5 лет назад

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

@lewwylemons 5 лет назад

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

@embee5375 5 лет назад

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

@user-rd8xy6zv5z 4 года назад

And that's crazy

@rainbowlemew 4 года назад

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

@GRE_GMAT_SAT Месяц назад

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.

@BBQDad463 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for this video. It was thoroughly fascinating.

@Kimpes 8 лет назад

20% of the comments get 80% of the likes

@andrewmcclintock7582 8 лет назад

Yep.

@ryantyler8685 8 лет назад

This ones true, though.

@goofyboy2627 8 лет назад

Capitalism

@gnera666 8 лет назад

and 80% of the comments get 20% of the dislikes :P

@martiddy 8 лет назад

80% of the spam is made by the 20% of users.

@XXXXD 3 года назад

I just realised that by knowing only top 100 words in english you practically know 50% of the language .

@labinsocarivan5736 3 года назад

😱

@cysis7537 3 года назад

So most of the words are useless.

@RK-ep8qy 3 года назад

@@cysis7537 yh tbf, I mean what exactly does "the" tell you? Not much

@ckhb059 3 года назад

So if i learn 100 of the most used words in French i then know 50% of the language and I may still have a hope of not failing my gcse French test

@CAMSLAYER13 3 года назад

@@cysis7537 some are vestigial others are too specific for common speech

@nickfosterxx 11 месяцев назад

A suitably profound close, beautifully done, would never have thought of that.

@redude08 8 месяцев назад

Time to make a book that's just the word sauce 5,000 times

@Vsauce 8 лет назад

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 8 лет назад

pentakis, exakis etc!

@MadeinHell2 8 лет назад

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

@maxkoller6315 8 лет назад

hahaha I love you mate :)

@ArceusDX 8 лет назад

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

@thethanmanland2 8 лет назад

+TheOneTemor omg illuminati confrimed

@KanatiGD 3 года назад

POV: you’re trying to get the 5,000 second long ad

@staswasyl1912 3 года назад

lol relatable

@mariomario-ih6mn 3 года назад

yeah

@ricobingcang6228 3 года назад

Yeah

@mikethehistorian 3 года назад

Frrrr

@imthiccanddoingvideosandso4569 3 года назад

lol yessss

@bright3944 4 месяца назад

Michael singlehandedly made quizatiously jump a couple hundred ranks up

@michaelbiljon8249 11 месяцев назад

This is my favourite video on RU-vid. I really want a follow up to this. Like, do we know any more about this phenomenon in the past 7 years?

@nulcheck 3 года назад

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

@auritro3903 2 года назад

Lol

@auritro3903 2 года назад

Like 69 lol

@unlimiteddd 2 года назад

Boom! ʕ-ᴥ-ʔ

@swallow_skyla3602 2 года назад

LOL

@GigaChad-tv7xl 2 года назад

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.

@carval2001 3 года назад

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

@explodamite2 3 года назад

it really is, right??

@Solteratube 3 года назад

Works for me.

@yousufansari4962 3 года назад

@Hubert Farnsworth lmaooooooooooo

@carval2001 3 года назад

@Hubert Farnsworth its a joke lol

@tommytwotacos8106 3 года назад

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

@chaboychit 3 месяца назад

Still one of my favourite Vsauce videos if not my favourite. And also the video I found out we have the same birthday. Happy 38th in 3 days, Michael! It'll be my 24th.

@MK-ox2qk 5 дней назад

VSauce is my favorite channel... I love showing my kids these videos...

@TNCROCx 3 года назад

zipfs law 🤝 fibonacci sequence : being everywhere

@nightmare3885 3 года назад

Wasnt it fibbonaci? My entire life was a lie

@Pal42_ 3 года назад

@@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 3 года назад

@@Pal42_ ferrari or ferarri?

@dylanpham9995 3 года назад

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

@WellBeSerious12 3 года назад

That is an archaic and stupid system.

@arjaycook7612 3 года назад

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

@Zilicon 3 года назад

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

@MaNu3Lo 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

Stole my comment😡

@arjaycook7612 3 года назад

@@rulerworld1289 Sorry, didn't see it.

@sprtrnds7880 3 года назад

@@MaNu3Lo I'm pretty sure that's what he meant

@Muranielol 9 месяцев назад

Fun fact: there was a person who clicked on this video and then got an ad that was over 1 hour long. It was a full Scooby-Doo movie.

@zagyex 9 месяцев назад

this video is in my top 10 videos on youtube. I watched it accordingly many times.

@mmandible5470 2 года назад

“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 2 года назад

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

@abra_escaped 2 года назад

Why thank you captain risk of rain 2

@MysteriusSushi 2 года назад

“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 2 года назад

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 2 года назад

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

@andrewchou3277 7 лет назад

I studied 20% of my books but I didn't get 80% on my exam. Why?

@Lulink013 7 лет назад

those were the wrong 20%

@funnyroflvines3139 7 лет назад

AC 計算機 bc

@krim7 7 лет назад

AC 計算機 simple: You didn't know which 20% of the material would be used until after the rest was given. So you studied the wrong 20%.

@mantasjankunas 7 лет назад

if you studied 80 % you would get 20% in exams

@sadhlife 7 лет назад

Actually 80% of the paper came from 20% of the book. But it probably wasnt the 20% u read. It was a random 20%.

@RepOfAntarctica Год назад

The of and to A in is I That it for you Was with on As have But be they -Poem based of the top twenty English words in usage, as of this video (2015), by Michael from Vsauce.

@circuitguy1010 Месяц назад

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

@justanothermcytfan7988 5 лет назад

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

@hensolo8825 5 лет назад

So V5,555, or 55,555, is 5 numbers long. Coincidence?

@justanothermcytfan7988 5 лет назад

....or is it?

@th3br0wncray0n2 5 лет назад

What is real?

@hulyan8944 5 лет назад

*v s a u c e mindfuck m u s i c*

@bellasizemore2433 5 лет назад

This has me shook..

@bryantadam7960 5 лет назад

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

@joshnajothi4100 4 года назад

@boppe2235 4 года назад

"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 4 года назад

Oracle: maybe

@MAJ0ROCEL0T 3 месяца назад

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

@BitcoinAndChess 3 месяца назад

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

@MadDunhill 9 месяцев назад

i've seen hundreds of vsauce videos but i think Zipf's Law is still the most mind blowing thing i've ever heard. makes it feel like we're living in some kind of simulation lol

@4TheRecord 3 года назад

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

@7Dimensi0ns 3 года назад

Hahaha brightened up my day =P

@maxwellli7057 3 года назад

@Pedro Dumper wow big funi

@maxwellli7057 3 года назад

@Adithya Nair always have this dude too

@mimiminecraft5362 3 года назад

Pedro Dumper wtf

@-Dovahkiin 3 года назад

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

@user-rd7jv4du1w 4 года назад

In fandoms: 80% of the toxicity comes from 20% of the fanbase

@MusicalInquisit 4 года назад

I think it's more the other way around, depending on the fandom.

@user-ix6lu9rn1m 4 года назад

Musical Inquisitor if 20% of the toxicity comes from 80% of the fan base then that’s just a different way of wording what the original comment said

@MusicalInquisit 4 года назад

@@user-ix6lu9rn1m Yes, but it means different things.

@user-ix6lu9rn1m 4 года назад

Musical Inquisitor no, not really if 20% of the fan base is 80% of the toxicity then 80% of the fan base is 20% of the toxicity

@MrVasteel 4 года назад

@@MusicalInquisit nope, Walker is right

@frogg_tv4774 Год назад

Michael never ceases to amaze me. i didn’t know i was so predictable

@justinhamilton8647 9 месяцев назад

19:23 youre so right… I always thought I could never forget my friends and teachers from school and now I can hardly remember anything

@qwertylyn8382 5 лет назад

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

@bxvtriz 5 лет назад

Qwerty Lyn i literally share the exact same struggle right now

@tacokitten 5 лет назад

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

@MrMista-zk6rz 4 года назад

Qwerty Lyn i feel u now

@akirasousuke7660 4 года назад

Dude... 3:14 AM here.

@uwumarii 4 года назад

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

@thomashara7760 4 года назад

"The" appeared 131 times in this video

@mjams231 3 года назад

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

@porchcollapse8612 3 года назад

Mason Chamberlain approximately

@mcsk6791 3 года назад

he use the word “a” 66 times

@leoirias3506 3 года назад

@@mcsk6791 interesting, whats the third most used word

@pepperpoop7729 3 года назад

glad you have so much free time to count this

@shaneclark8903 Год назад

The ending music is Lonely Night by Dave James & Keith Beauvais. Hopefully this saves time for others.

@Granola-ld1by 4 месяца назад

18:07 i love that you played your theme song here

@Icewind007 4 года назад

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

@egg9709 4 года назад

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

@david203 4 года назад

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

@kahlzun 4 года назад

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

@boostplease7450 4 года назад

Dont nuclear weapons go off in the sky?

@seemelater5056 4 года назад

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

@ThisNameIsVeryClever 8 лет назад

"They don't think it be like it is, but it do."

@alimarvi5356 8 лет назад

- Black Science Man

@SuperGreenpuppet 8 лет назад

+Ali Marvi LOL

@shadowblack10 8 лет назад

+Ali Marvi I'm black and I thought that was hilarious lmaoo

@firepants20 8 лет назад

+Ali Marvi Thank you for this. I totally saw it coming, but it just had to be done.

@catbat6264 8 лет назад

Lmao

@onkara4363 Год назад

This video is soooo quizzaciously fascinating

@peyton_tucker Год назад

I tried the paper clip thing and it worked

@foxyninjaa 3 года назад

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

@joshuaarnold1895 3 года назад

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

@foxyninjaa 3 года назад

@@joshuaarnold1895 XD precisely

@Qaptyl 3 года назад

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

@joshuaarnold1895 3 года назад

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

@Qaptyl 3 года назад

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

@z01nk3d6 7 лет назад

My phone is at 20% 80% of the time

@JonathanLaliberte1 6 лет назад

why phone is at 80% 20% of the time

@Smudge7Four 6 лет назад

I feel that!!! 20 % rn

@ThePremiumGamer 6 лет назад

so your phone is at 80% 20% of the time

@pocketinfinity4003 6 лет назад

Androids are at 80% 80% of the time.

@Mrunibro 6 лет назад

Pocket Infinity you made me check my battery% after reading it. It was at 80%. i.imgur.com/juX40TJ.png

@SusDoctor 24 дня назад

80% of this video is words. 20% is Vsause tunes

@steveyuhas9278 Год назад

I'm about 10 vsauce vids into my binge right now... Over here havin an existential crisis sitting on the toilet.

@nownothingwillbewrong2958 5 лет назад

0:27 me talking to a girl be like

@geoffreyloaiza8281 4 года назад

Omg lol

@hunterobrian7761 4 года назад

that makes two of us

@FestivalofFreaks 4 года назад

Me trying to talk to anyone

@warwick802 4 года назад

Lmao

@twistedgwazi5727 4 года назад

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@miguelisaurusbruh1158 3 года назад

"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 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

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

@DuffManWool 3 года назад

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

@enjybadran7876 3 года назад

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

@FloraMHorta 3 года назад

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

@charleslentz1962 6 месяцев назад

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

@mikeriner9893 5 месяцев назад

I have watched and shared this multiple times over the years

@quentinbell5617 4 года назад

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 RU-vidr, Vsauce mentioned it in one of his videos.

@punchjudy 4 года назад

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

@chaoticsilver8442 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@horsham9816 4 года назад

666 likes😳

@Ommelanden 4 года назад

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

@jesserusso5455 2 года назад

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

@yamanbusmaje 2 года назад

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 2 года назад

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

@profile1157 2 года назад

Bro soo true

@KanarisTM 2 года назад

Yep.

@GenericProtagonist118 2 года назад

Sus.

@crazyhayden 9 месяцев назад

I never knew that word was and still is a popular word to a degree of that size! I wonder whether a sentence could be constructed without using it, though I believe it'd be quite challenging for any writers attempting such an activity. Zipf is such an interesting phenomenon to be talked about, and I hope to see more of it! Wait a second, this sentence seems awfully devoid of a specific word. Oh well, probably not concerning to me or anyone else reading.

@gumarks_ Год назад

About that last quote Michael mentions. I guess that many of the things you do/experience, including that large amount of things you will definitely forget some time later, will, even unconsciously, forge who you will be in the future. Maybe you can't remember one specific thing that happened to you five years ago, but there's a chance that it was significant enough to give you some kind of knowledge or slightly shape your personality a certain way. Even if you don't remember that it happened, its repercussions in you are still there, it's part of you.