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It's hard for me to believe that 88% of a "random" sample of men know what "codec" is. Perhaps this vocabulary test was given mainly to people in Flanders. If so, I'm quite impressed with their general knowledge, especially of English words. I'd bet that no more than 8.8% of "random" males in the USA would know what "codec" is.

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The article says it's based on "the first 500K tests completed" of http://vocabulary.ugent.be/wordtest/start

Then the sample is probably taken from internet dwellers who are interested in seeing how good their vocabulary is. I wonder if that's also why Paladin is so high up on that list.

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