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		ronaldx on Nov 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 33 Questions As long as you split the distribution uniformly into categories with the same number of people, it doesn't matter that it's not uniform by date.

bnegreve on Nov 24, 2013 [–]

Yes, except that you cannot expect people to be able to answer this "question" anymore.

There is no doubt that you can uniquely identify the world population with 33 bits, so I guess the problem is to do it with questions people can answer themself.

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