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The reason is probably dumb, like people picking a common fraction (half or a third) and then fuzzing it a little to make it "more random". Is the third place number close to but not quite 25 or 75?
Its a bit more complicated but here's a cool video on the topic https://youtu.be/d6iQrh2TK98
Ok, that's interesting, but you amusingly picked the wrong number in the original comment, picking 34 rather than 37.
I did not pick any number. That was my first comment in the thread
idk the third place number off the top of my head, but that might be the case, although you would have to do some really weird data collection in order to get that number.
I think it's just something fundamentally pleasing about the number itself that the human brain latches onto. I suspect it has something to do with primes, or "pseudo" primes, numbers that seem like primes, but aren't since they're probably over represented in our head among "random" numbers even though primes are perfectly predictable.