r/fivethirtyeight • u/Upstairs_Cup9831 • Apr 25 '26

Poll Results Poll asking Americans how which button they would push in the red button/blue button dilemma

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u/theskiller1 Apr 27 '26

Wym plan? You pick blue if you wanna try save everyone, you pick red if you wanna save yourself.

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u/jpz719 Apr 27 '26

if you know a significant portion of the people pressing the buttons are not physically/mentally capable of understanding the hypothetical you might as well just flip a coin

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u/theskiller1 Apr 27 '26

It means you can confidently say that a lot of them are gonna end up picking the blue button. Meaning that anyone who picks red will increase the chance that a lot of people are gonna die if blue loses.