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Unfortunately, only 32% got this one right.

For comparison, 42% thought the answer was X Combinator, and only 6% went for W Combinator.

Elon, if you're reading this, I have a great business idea for you.

What do we learn from all of this?

First, touching grass is great.

At least, the kind of grass that grows on the beautiful rolling hills of cyberspace.

There's an image here.

Making contact with reality is important and you don't need to speculate about things when you can test them carefully.

Polling feels like a thing that only serious, respectable people do, but you can actually just do things.

There are a lot of limitations to this methodology, of course.

All of us have divergences between our stated and revealed preferences.

Our own guesses as to how we'd behave in various hypotheticals can be an unreliable predictor of how we'd actually ask.

Wording can have huge impacts on how we respond.

And respondents can be trolling us.

But as long as we keep these limitations in mind, we can still draw useful conclusions and learn new things about the world.

This article was narrated by Type 3 Audio for LessWrong.

It was published on March 26, 2026.

The original text contained 11 footnotes which were omitted from the narration.

Images are included in the podcast episode description.