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#114
05-23-2005, 09:14 PM
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Re: An psych experiment on the OOT crowd....
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Did you let the coins hit the ground??? If you catch a coin it is NOT random. [/ QUOTE ] ?????????????? ?????????????????????????? ?????????????????? ????????? ?????????????????? 
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#115
05-23-2005, 09:17 PM
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Re: An psych experiment on the OOT crowd....
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For example, if 3 people admit they flipped coins, then my guess would be the top 3 in the list. (tbach24, dholdr, and dr strangelove). [/ QUOTE ] by the way, last i checked 20 was the same distance from 19.5 that 19 is.... [ QUOTE ] EDIT: (FWIW, it was the thread about picking your set of skills taht you are #1 at, in which someone said "picking random numbers" that made me do this) [/ QUOTE ] And I was the one that pointed out that it is not really such an easy thing to do. By the way, given a sufficiently large sample size (maybe >1 million), I think that even the lists made by random number generators could be spotted from those made using a "fair" coin. I've done tests on this, and I get some pretty strange results. i.e. 80% of flips after 7 consecutive "heads" result in another heads (over 1000 flips) and things of that sort.
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#116
05-23-2005, 09:28 PM
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Re: An psych experiment on the OOT crowd....
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by the way, last i checked 20 was the same distance from 19.5 that 19 is.... [/ QUOTE ] A) Yes, but if I put you ahead of them, they could say the same thing, right? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] B) No... 20 is actually slightly "worse" than 19. Since, for the most part, humans tend to scew it upwards, 19 is actually slightly more likely to be random than 20. (this was the tiebreaker for congruent numbers on opposite sides)
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#118
05-23-2005, 09:38 PM
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Re: An psych experiment on the OOT crowd....
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I can't believe I actually flipped 40 coins, but I did. [/ QUOTE ] Im honestly dumbfounded as to how many people actually flipped coins. (then again, there might be a bias towards coming forth if you actually did flip them) EDIT: or created/used a RNG
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#119
05-23-2005, 09:39 PM
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Re: An psych experiment on the OOT crowd....
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By the way, given a sufficiently large sample size (maybe >1 million), I think that even the lists made by random number generators could be spotted from those made using a "fair" coin. I've done tests on this, and I get some pretty strange results. i.e. 80% of flips after 7 consecutive "heads" result in another heads (over 1000 flips) and things of that sort. [/ QUOTE ] What language? I used C++ to test some things, and afer a million was basically dead on in flipness.
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#120
05-23-2005, 09:45 PM
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Re: An psych experiment on the OOT crowd....
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[ QUOTE ] I can't believe I actually flipped 40 coins, but I did. [/ QUOTE ] Im honestly dumbfounded as to how many people actually flipped coins. (then again, there might be a bias towards coming forth if you actually did flip them) EDIT: or created/used a RNG [/ QUOTE ] It would've taken me literally 5 seconds to do 40 samples on my calc, how does that dumfound you?
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