Why is this number everywhere?

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walking down the street and being asked to say a random number and then having the interviewer get excited over your answer has to be so confusing

The fact this video isn't 37mins long, is an insult to easter eggs everywhere.

I do understand the logic behind the explanation. Odd numbers seem more random than even numbers, so when asked for a "random" number, it's more likely to be an odd one. 5 sits right in the center that's not feeling random, 1 is right at the start, 9 right at the end - don't feel random either. That only leaves 3 and 7. So, when people try to construct a random number between 1 and 100 in their heads, they are more likely to come up with 37 or 73, than any other number. And while the frequency of 37 and 73 coming up is highly statistically significant - 37 was still just picked somewhere around 2%. That's twice as much as it should be - but far, far less common then the video snippets of asked people would suggest. It's small enough a derivation from the expected value to be easily conceivable. What I don't understand though, is the logic behind collecting thousands of occurences of the number 37 - and claiming it shows up everywhere. Because, how do you know, that if you were collecting occurences of 36 or 38 or any other number instead, you'd be getting less? Without anything to compare it to... you could actually be finding 37 exactly as much, as you would be finding every other number. There's no telling if you are above or below what you'd expect to find... Yeah, 37 is everywhere... but so are all the other numbers between 1 and 100.

It's called the Baader Meinhof Phenomenon. Once you become aware of something, you start seeing it everywhere.

"he just 37ed and walked away" was undoubtedly the funniest part of this video

37 and 73 being the 12th and 21st prime numbers is satisfying.

I love how the number 69 was ignored 37% of the time in this video.

The number 37 is a number I've attached with my mother. She was only 37 years old when she passed away from Breast Cancer. So when I played sports, I wore the number 37 in tribute to her. And I still do to this day.

The fact that he discarded 42 and 69 for obvious reasons is just too funny to me.

I'm 37 years old. This explains everything!

The strangest thing is, Schrodinger(who was the father of quantum mechanics, a branch of pure randomness) was 37 yrs old when he gave his First breakthrough in quantum physics by giving his Schrodinger equation which is the core equation we use today, it was unusual because he has been waiting for a revolutionary idea and he went through depression all this time to give the most revolutionary equation of all time at the age 37.

63 has always felt like the right random number which is the required addition to 37 to make 100

37 actually has a unique universal quality: it's the representation of the exact quantity of 37, a very special property that no other number has.

After the video finished, I got a turbotax ad that said 37% of people qualify. My mind is blown

"36?!?! but last year- last year I had 37!!!!" -Dudley Dursley

If you build a square like the calculator without the zero, in the 1st row 7,8,9 in the 2nd 4,5,6 and in the 3th row 1,2,3 if write: 321123 and do the same thing with the 2nd row 456654 and then the 3th row and surprise: each of them are divisible by 37. If you do the same thing with the first column 741147 and the second column 852258 and the 3th column 963369 also are divisible by 37. it’s works with the diagonals too.

I watched the whole video thinking that I don't have anything related to 37 at all, then realized that I'm 37 years old.

73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror, 37, is the 12th. And its mirror, 21, is the product of multiplying 7 and 3. In binary 73 is a palindrome, 1001001, which backwards is 1001001. -Sheldon Cooper

This same phenomenon hit me on my 37th birthday it just started showing up. I never thought about it before or saw anything describing it, and now this video. What threw me into believing there is something deeper was after my second bodybuilding competition. Weeks after looking over some of my stage photos I noticed that the number that they give you to place on your shorts so the judges know who you are was first 3 (at my first competition)and then my second competition which is my profile picture clear as day is the number 7. These numbers are given to the athletes in complete randomness, we have no control whatsoever on what number pins we get. Ever since I realized that this happened I have literally been puzzled but this video makes total sense. ❤