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!
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.
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 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
“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
“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
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.
Watching this nearly a decade later. Probably my 20th time revisiting this exact video. By far my favorite video on UA-cam. Absolutely beautiful composition and every part makes me think deep every time I watch it. I love this video
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%….
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
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
@@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 ".".
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
"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
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..
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.
@@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
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 UA-camr, Vsauce mentioned it in one of his videos.
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.
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.
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
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
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??
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.
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?
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.
"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"
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.
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.
[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 (UA-cam won't actually let me post the whole thing XD so here's the 100 most common words)
@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.
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
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.
"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!
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. 🤔
@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
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
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
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
+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.
+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...
+Thadeus Crimson And - theoretically - 80% of views on UA-cam 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...
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.
@@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.
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.
"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.
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
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.
@@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
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!
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.
@@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.
@@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
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 UA-cam 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?
+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?
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.
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!
+Vsauce yes
+Vsauce Thank you for your art Michael.
+Vsauce You should do a video about the six degrees of separation theory!! Anyways love your vids.
What about Cern or H.a.r.p Something about portals or wormholes into different dimensions do an Vid on that ? .
ummm okayy??? #FuckThisShitImOut
“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
sounds Shakespearean
@Vahe Mayilyan The almighty loaf
Vahe Mayilyan pretty old meme
It was mine too
Or is it?
In group chats:
80% of the talking is done by 20% of the members
All these comments made me realize that holy fucking shit the 80-20 rule is actually everywhere
Holy shit you’re right
It is confirmed that *y o u e x i s t*
Facts
Big brain big brain
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.
I believe this is the explanation for why there is so much plagiarism online
People aren’t even aware they are copying someone else
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!
The Bader Meinhoff effect
@@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
80% of Michaels hair is on 20% of his head
Whoops
Nice one
Savage
nice...
He looks hot, well... warm.
“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
according to zipfs law, by now you must have forgot it.
Why thank you captain risk of rain 2
“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
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
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
This video made me uneasy for some reason.
Because 80% of the government is 20% Illuminat :o
+Mumbo Jumbo HEY MUMBO!!! A SURPRISE TO SEE YOU HERE! im a subber btw
isn't it weird the same people you like also like the people you like ?
+Mumbo Jumbo It`s just that you`re living in a computer program nothing to make you uneasy...
Wow. Interristing to see you here, of all places. I'm glad you have interrest such cool things though.
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.
dayum, still very sad he no longer makes long form thi
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.
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. 😅
Did he die?
@@menotuandurmom no, he just doesn't make long form content anymore. it's still a really weird way of saying that tho.
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.
•brain explodes•
The
If that is true, s/he needs to speak up. The students in the back need to hear hir too.
Maybe she has ears, And if she actually has ears, we're doomed.
Can you speak up? I can't hear from back here
Michael; the only man who can answer 16 questions when we only asked one
clearly he "answer"s more than we "ask"
80% of the answers come from 20% of the questions
@@shyeskyeskyeksye my brain is to broken to read this
1 minute of watching him and i learn more then a whole year of school
he'll answer 8 questions when asked only 2
Fun fact: He had said 16 words before the first “the” he said
!!! Why doesn't this comment have more likes
@@ramananprv4756 because this video is from 2015
But the comments are 3 days ago
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
No mans sky. 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Watching this nearly a decade later. Probably my 20th time revisiting this exact video. By far my favorite video on UA-cam. Absolutely beautiful composition and every part makes me think deep every time I watch it. I love this video
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%….
Your 20th time watching the video, huh? I guess that means you remember 80% of it.
me with literally every vsauce video, this guys the goat of youtube by far
I know what I must do. I must make an entire book that says the word sauce over 100 million times
disturb the balance
restore *sauce*
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
Reject logic. Return to the 2009 YTP.
I will do the same, but with *SUS*
Now add V
Finding a Vsauce video in your subscriptions feels like finding $20 on the street.
+Finn Beruldsen Well said! I need more $20 dollar bills.
it really does mate
+Finn Beruldsen Both get the reaction: "Ummmm... YES."
Its $20 worth of knowledge.
So true
Group projects:
80% of the work is done by 20% of the students
Damn
Or the other way around since they don’t finish the project
It actually do be like that
e. g. one student
15.4% of your sentence is "the"
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
That IS a fun fact
@@ibperson7765 indeed - who dosent like a good ending
@@wthisthishandlething Word
The most used words are now: hey, vsauce, Michael, here.
The most words you said in that sentence are “ , “
@@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 ".".
Ikr
@@neeevirus Ik I was kidding
@@person7038 I had a slight feeling you were kidding, but I still went and replied like that
sorry for not getting the joke
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!!!
pentakis, exakis etc!
+Vsauce Such a thing happens to google whacks all the time. It is a sad thing to see go.
hahaha I love you mate :)
+Vsauce I just checked the Oxford English Dictionary site, Quizzaciously has disappeared.
+TheOneTemor omg illuminati confrimed
Fun fact: Marine biologists have found that Zipf's law also applies to dolphin click patterns. Dolphins have their own language
I knew it!! 🐬🐬🐬 (By which I mean that I _suspected_ so, not that I already knew the fact, haha.)
@@dollcefina Fun fact, you typed 16 words before typing "the". (idk if intentional)
"So long and thanks for all the fish"
@@sagesarrazine6270 16.
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.
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.
This is a great story! Stay curious bro ❤
That's awesome 🙂
Lays really takes the 80-20 thing to heart with 80% air and 20% chips in the bag
Lol
Like 69 lol
Boom! ʕ-ᴥ-ʔ
LOL
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.
"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
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..
@@lordneojacks yeah it irritates me too when I think about it.
To me too, great quote. Sadly We will forget about it soon
@@SoloLevellor I'm a darktuber & you can't catch me nananananana you are banana
Same here, it brought tears to my eyes for some reason.
80% of my attention is on 20% of the screen
Ronald McDonald
Nigga I'm gonna kick the McShit™ outta you
Your profile picture is very appropriate for your comment.
Nigga you too woke for me
tbh that is probably correct
1000 likes in just three months... I'm impressed.
I watch this video every time the world feels too chaotic to remember that this moment is just an outlier.
And now there's 58,800 Google results for 'quizzaciously' - and a subreddit. Way to go, Michael, you saved a word from obscurity.
+grfrjiglstan No. If the rule holds then quizzaciously becoming more popular won't have any net effect.
That's funny; my Web search didn't come up with anything.
remember to search for it with quotation marks. With them, it's only 110 results so far.
+Arturo Gutierrez Ah, 327
+grfrjiglstan Btw, the word in in Wikipedia now as well lol
Obviously the programmers who made the simulation we live in got lazy and decided to write one law to cover the ratio of everything
I think those "programmers" is just God
@@isore3090 naw god doesn't exist
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.
@@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
@@isore3090 you can't even spell "programmers" right, how are you talking?
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 UA-camr, Vsauce mentioned it in one of his videos.
Which begs the question, did Quiznos go out of business?
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.
The second the was the 16th word of what you said
666 likes😳
Michael should start a charity for abandoned words who sadly never get used
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.
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
Yep, that's a quote I can fancy will be one of the 20% of quotes I've heard that I will actually remember.
Deep thoughts
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.
I read Horus Heresy.
You hyave been warned.
yes a very very very good guote!
This explains why whenever you learn a new word you all of a sudden start hearing it everywhere for like weeks after
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
@@yamanbusmaje That’s the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon….I’d love to see that get its own VSauce video!
Bro soo true
Yep.
Sus.
The fact that this man is able to make any topic entertaining is just incredible to me
There's Ashwiyat
Ashwaiyat Also Make Any Topic Entertaining
@@enjybadran7876 link?
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??
@@saadsalman1650 Because he is annoying. talk normally, we aren't kids
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.
About 80% of my brain exploded with 20% of information on this video.
0:27 when you return home wasted and attempt to explain yourself
This deserves more likes
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?
David Aire b
lol
The Eclecticity ok
My mum always used to say, "Education is what you remember after you've forgotten what you've been taught"
You mean that “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”?
@@joshuaarnold1895 XD precisely
@@joshuaarnold1895 dont forget to wear goggles and have no exposed skin
mixing water with crayons is dangerous
@@Qaptyl what? XD
Is this what you learned in school??
@@joshuaarnold1895 well they always put warning in the beginning of the school year but never even use anything toxic
British National Corpus most used words:
#5555: Sauce
#5556: CHELTENHAM
#5557: Shelf
Cheltenham is the name of a town. I imagine that one or two books which use the word quite frequently would skew the numbers.
What the fuck is Cheltenham and why the fuck is it used more than shelf
#8243: Wrapper
#8244: SCORNSFLAGL
#8245: Doorknob
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.
shelf
2:43, it's only chaotic when you look at it closely, from afar it is aligned and tighty.
In a classroom 80% of the talking is done by 20% of the kids.
Lord Davrox more like 3% of the kids
Obama bin Laden, that’s just the one kid that every teacher hates
In a classroom 80% of the homework is done by 20% of the kids too.
or are 80% of the kids done by 20% of the talking?
yea well most chimps are taught to regurgitate information. Thinking for yourself requires that rare spark of intelligence
Damn, that's alot to take in late at night before bed
Qwerty Lyn i literally share the exact same struggle right now
lol I am literally typing this at 11:00 at night at night and I feel the same way
Qwerty Lyn i feel u now
Dude... 3:14 AM here.
12:07 here and in tired af. Why are we doing this to ourselves
I've always said I wear 20 percent of my clothes 80 percent of the time.
Clever one 😂
Taking that into account, you’re saying you have 20 pieces of clothing... Wow, loser!
Mario Maxy he could have 5 pieces of clothing
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.
@@edme8865 There is the alternative option of,you know, *_cleaning the outfits_*
there ain't no way "cheltenham" is used more frequently in english than "shelf"
I had a Scottish manager and his most used word began with an f.
Hahaha brightened up my day =P
@Pedro Dumper wow big funi
@Adithya Nair always have this dude too
Pedro Dumper wtf
@Pedro Dumper idk if you're illiterate but it says f, not n
When a nuke lands, 80% of the damage is in 20% of its blast radius.
80% of the comments are from 20% of the video's existence
A nuclear weapon doesn't land. Waiting until it lands to explode would result in less damage.
@@david203 but a lot more penetration or fallout. Depends on whether you are seeking blast radius or denial of area..
Dont nuclear weapons go off in the sky?
is that's why 80% of anime is 20% hentai?
Agent Smith: Michael is the one. Eliminate him now.
Michael: Or am I?
We
"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"
Oracle: maybe
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.
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.
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
it really is, right??
Works for me.
@Hubert Farnsworth lmaooooooooooo
@Hubert Farnsworth its a joke lol
Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?
The most used word people use while watching VSauce:
“What?”
The most used phrase in vsauce videos is: or is it... OR IS IT . . .
@@geometryjosh21 vacuse? (edit: congrats you fixed it) (edit again: actually you didn't its vsauce not vsause)
Haha I just added this video to my playlist called "What?"
And that's crazy
The word least used while watching Vsauce: FBI, open up.
Once you've read the dictionary, every other book is just a remix
Denis DRC once you’ve seen the alphabet, every other word is just a remix
Isle of Birbs once you’ve seen a straight line, every written letter is just a remix
@@whiteslate once you’ve seen a periodic table, the whole world is just a remix
Denis DRC woaahhh
@@curiousman4452 once you've seen matter and energy, the whole observable universe is just a remix.
I can watch these videos every month, and still find them interesting. Just love the way Michael explains all this stuff
Honestly, same
[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
(UA-cam won't actually let me post the whole thing XD so here's the 100 most common words)
this is actually amazing
Thank you for taking the time to do this! I was wondering myself!!
Thanks for the work!
I too was curious about the video’s zipf-iness
Wow, lets get this comment in the top, bdw god job
@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.
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."
yes
I love how Michal singlehandedly revived "Quizatiously"
I'm three months in the future of this comment...and now there's a website, subriddet, wiki page, and a Utube music video...
Alexander Supertramp r/woooooooosh
@@elijahzufalligeanordnung1843 lolol riddet are www.reddit.com/r/wooooooos u just got wooshed!!!
umm... please spell the word correctly you goober
5:50 the thumb is (usually) 20% of a hand
I have a really difficult time remembering the rate at which we forget
I'll quote that
Hold on there a second
I was going to reply to your comment, but forgot what I was thinking.
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
Ahmad Kashmar
I wish if i have philosophy in my school
Vsauce: "Take a bunch of paper clips and grab any two at random."
"But what is random?"
That process of choosing is not random, it is arbitrary.
... And how much does it weigh?
What is "vsauce"?
Or:
“Hey, VSauce, Michael here, and I just said a sentence.
But what is the meaning of existence?”
“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)”
I want vsauce videos back
same
I mean if you have UA-cam red, they're a thing
@@carlaceciliaxx Unless UA-cam red is not available in your country... :/
@@Knjaz_Zlogrd now that's actually really sad damn my condolences
@Derpnershly yeah I mentioned that too lol
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.
Are you a fellow linguist?
"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!
"And as always, thanks for watching"
when he said that quote i legitimately cried
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
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. 🤔
@@earlbilbrey8058 every couple of days someone, somewhere, invents dadaist poetry again
it does sound like when i try to explain things to someone-
Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?
TOATAIIITIFYWWOAHBBT
I love how he says the most used words in English as if it's a sentence of a good ol' English poem.
i am not sayin' most script'd
Verily, t'was iambic pentameter!
ye olde english poem
@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
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
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
@@RapidVidsProductions i’m very flattered that you think starting a masters in statistics is comparable to space travel
@@Lucy-fn9rj noice 🤣🤣
@@RapidVidsProductions not all people have your problem mate
I feel the same way, personally having gone from being in middle school to being a linguistics student in university
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
Honeyblaze cool
Did you read all the words of this video and do this?
If you really took the time to watch this video and make this list i salute you. RESPECT +++
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
Well still impressive :D
20% of this video left me 80% confused.
80% of this video contained 20% of the Information :-D
+Simon Tiersch *cough* the *cough* other *cough* way *cough* around *cough*
20% of this comment contains 80% of my reply
+Simon Tiersch Lol! Or is it that 80% of the information was given in 20% of the video? .> 0.0
+Kevin Simmons uhhhhh... pls, help. I'm stuck inside my mind now, and I can't find the way out.
You should have counted the words used in the video
Explains why 20% of employees do 80% of the work.
+Bulkbs Jokes
+Bulkbs because they must follow pareto's law, which is a management directive in almost all companies.
+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.
+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...
Communism...
so, theoretically, 80% of views on UA-cam are on 20% of the videos?
+Thadeus Crimson And - theoretically - 80% of views on UA-cam 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...
80% of the videos are created by 20% of users. Well, in theory.
+Thadeus Crimson and like 8% on Gandom Style
+Thadeus Crimson this could also mean that the "top" you tube commenter comments twice as next as the 2nd.
I read somewhere that 99% of the views are on 30% of the videos
11:27 this fake ending is probably my favorite youtube moment. I love Vsauce so much.
Yes. 18:04 is great too lol
I genuinely fell for that, despite falling for it already a few times already
I fell for it too
vsauce doesn't provide fake content, you can stf
as the music kicks in, i instantly remembered 'as always, thanks for waaaaaiiiiit a minute...'
This one video made the results for quizzaciously go from one to ~4,420 in 7 years.
The use of "quizzaciously" just rose by at least a billion percent.
I was close
6 million is not close to 1000000000
+Julian Wright lt is when you think relatively, considering 1000000000 is far closer to 6000000 than it is to even twice itself.
+Worst Girl Google says it rose by 108,000% now.
+Worst Girl all the site came from 4 days ago
What really messed me up is the realization that 80% of your memories come from 20% of your life.
20% of your memories come from 80% of your life
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
Stole my comment😡
@@rulerworld1289 Sorry, didn't see it.
@@Ndulin I'm pretty sure that's what he meant
"by focusing on 20% of what's wrong, you can expect to solve 80% of the problems" mind blown
I focused on 40% now i solved 160% of my problems
@@AranwaarNoob, I’m doing 100% for 400%
@@phil_bean shut up
But being able to identify what that priority 20% should be is the real key.
It's not ANY 20% but a specific 20%.
This video single-handedly made "quizzaciously" the third most popular word in the English language
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.
Maybe because 20% of the things we know have come from 80% of Vsauce videos
+Chowder12345able Paret-OH YOU :D
Vsauce And my day just became exponentially more enjoyable😃
I know what you're talking about :D
no sir you just pay more attention to what he says than what your teacher says
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.
lol true
that's in music alone
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.
Michael's Teacher "Make sure you list at least 3 sources!" Michael "OK"
Naturally, because 20% of the people do 80% of the research.
18:08 i love that he knows he’s a meme
Don’t like it’s perfect
he’s cool with it tho
"80% of the help you need is given
by just 20% of your friends --
and only these deserve to be
called a _real_ friend ..."
Let's break the system and all say "sauce" about 1 million times a day.
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
sauce
Colonel Sawyer wouldn’t sauce just get higher on the list an take some other words place
Thats the point alex
Sauce
I’m still finding Vsauce videos I haven’t yet watched, videos uploaded years ago.
You haven't used the most used word in your comment.
You are God
I'm just watching all of them again over and over...
I'm finding Vsauce videos I thought I hadn't watched, but I was proven wrong via indication of a like.
@@skirdus367 i guess this was one of the things you forgot, even though it had a strong enough effect on you to like it
ua-cam.com/video/Bmc9NFfhx74/v-deo.html
I think I’ll be coming back to this every now and then.
Indeed. I watch this every few months.
80% of watches maybe are by the 20% who revisits it
69th like
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.
0:27 I love how my brain is trying to make sense of this as if it were a sentence.
My Brain Does The Same Thing
you are your brain
@@butterflyexists you are IN your brain
@@omoldugrene7857 actually we're a brain controlling a meat bag
@@luciussalcedo3731 you control you brain and you brain controls a bag of meat,
Is there a book that is un-zipfy on purpose, do people feel strange reading it?
This is a freakin cool idea. I wonder if it’s impossible?
Will Dayble it isn’t impossible, But it’d look something like this: “Spaghetti tables... hats!...”
@@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.
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.
Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright. Doesn't use the letter 'E' which is the most commonly used letter.
No 'the' without 'thee'
"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.
This comment is underrated
@@PLSLetMeUseEmax64OnANewChannel true and still is
CALM DOWN BRO!!!!!! CHILL. 😐
@@isabelhollibaugh7962 ?
@@isabelhollibaugh7962 u good?
8 years and Quizzaciously has gone from appearing in 1 google search result to 401,000. Neat.
This video is so fascinating. Month after month, I keep coming back to it. Kinda think it's Michael's masterpiece. Absolutely mesmerizing stuff.
prashant sharma Yes, it most likely is.
I know its one of my top 5 favorites, and it's my favorite of all his language-centered videos.
its top 3 imo The juvenoia video is the best
Really? I think he has better videos. No doubt an amazing video though.
Well, what I meant to say is that this video of his is the one that blows my mind the most.
This looks like looks a programmer made the universe and didn't bother to make different patterns
AKA God
kel norris
Sometimes even great people get lazy...
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
It is the Natural Law Macrocosm/Microcosm, "Things repeat throughout the spheres". www.academia.edu/1619468/Macrocosm_Microcosm
"Fibonacci sequence"
2:46 I can't believe the word "Jose" is more frequent than the word "shapes".
What? No way, José.
Only 11 more times though
But at 2:11 cheltenham is used more than shelf
You haven't been in Los Angeles?
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..
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.
zipfs law 🤝 fibonacci sequence : being everywhere
Wasnt it fibbonaci? My entire life was a lie
@@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
@@Pal42_ ferrari or ferarri?
Pareto’s principle: am I a joke to you?
That is an archaic and stupid system.
2:10 are you telling me we use "cheltenham" more than "shelf"
I've never used that word in my life
What is that word even
Definitely an artifact of it pulling from Project Gutenberg, it contains a lot of fucky old language.
Josh Bothell “fucky old language” explains it pretty well.
Its a name
Sauce is the 5,555th most used word, and is a five letter word. V is 5 in Roman numerals. WHAT
So V5,555, or 55,555, is 5 numbers long. Coincidence?
....or is it?
What is real?
*v s a u c e mindfuck m u s i c*
This has me shook..
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!
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.
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.
@@Ratchet2022 No kidding, or at least, be able to access this much knowledge so easily and quickly for so many of us!
I love his utter lack of floccinaucinihilipilification when it comes to knowledge.
@@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.
@@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
Where’s the ad?
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The 5000 second one or another one 😂😂
I got a goddamn 1:45 skipable ad
same tho
Maybe they'll fixed the ad?
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 UA-cam 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?
+Drew Smith Perhaps it was intentional,
+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?
+bringingtherukas
It's also a relatively tiny sample, so variations are to be expected.
+Drew Smith maybe because he changed the subject a few times ??? perhaps haha
Sir Michael, you've gained yourself some serious fans O_O
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.
0:27 me talking to a girl be like
Omg lol
that makes two of us
Me trying to talk to anyone
Lmao
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"The" appeared 131 times in this video
So does that mean the second most used word in this video occurred 65.5 times?
Mason Chamberlain approximately
he use the word “a” 66 times
@@mcsk6791 interesting, whats the third most used word
glad you have so much free time to count this
Who else is binge watching his videos at 3 AM
I'm not right now, but that's what I did when I first found his channel.
i just found it and i'm doing it right now, although it's only 11:25
wow....I am. What are the odds of me deciding to read comments and on this video, find this comment
xur, you better bring something good this weekend
Xur, You play Destiny? ME TOO! :D
I come back to this video often. Its honestly so existentially comforting somehow.
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