In a message of Fri, 05 Dec 2003 16:36:11 +0100, Laura Creighton goofed: <snip>

more_), or even whether something is 'more common' or not -- if you hand them a series of 30 numbers from one to ten with '4' repeated 8 times in a row and '9' occuring 10 times, but never in a row, about half the class will insist that '8' is more common than '9' _even after you count them_.

pretend I said '8' repeated 8 times in a row, not '4'. apologies, Laura Creighton