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Question #68·18 October 2026·revealed

Would you rather be born 100 years earlier or 100 years later?

25 of 41 participants chose 100 years later.

16 participants chose the other answer.

100 years earlier39%
100 years later61%

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41
votes on this question
2
published country breakdowns
33%
of 6 predictors called the winner
19.7
avg split-guess miss, points

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100 years earlier100 years later
Everywhere else 20
4555

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100 years earlier100 years later
Everywhere else 23
2674

By profession

100 years earlier100 years later
Everywhere else 7
4357

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In a wisehumans poll of 41 voters (18 October 2026), 61% chose "100 years later". Source: wisehumans.org/q/would-you-rather-be-born-100-years-earlier-or-100

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Self-selected online poll, no accounts: one vote per browser per day, capped per network address to limit repeat voting. Country derived at the network edge; age and profession self-reported from fixed lists. Buckets under 25 votes fold into "Everywhere else"; buckets under 5 are never published. Not weighted, not representative of any population.