An psych experiment on the OOT crowd....

[DeadIsARetard]

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no. dead is a retard and i am not.

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fyp

-DiaR

[lorinda]

"Yeah, thats as good as it gets for our intents and purposes. "

It may be a good idea if you repeat this anywhere to link to a coin flipping program somewhere to maximize the odds that people will actually consider moving off their chair.

Edit: I realise that you are saying repeatedly that it doesn't matter, but I think it would also lower the chances that they bother to lie about doing it or not.

Lori

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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.

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Not true, I did extensive research for 2 semesters in RNG's using many different tests and methods to determine how random data is, including obvious tests like arithmetic mean, and much more sophisticated tests like entropy, chi square distribution, monte carlo pi value, and serial correlation. I personally tested billions of 'random' bits hundreds of times over the year, and what's returned by the C rand() function is indistinguishable from true random data. If it could be determined that C rand() returns non-random values, it'd take a more than trillions of bits to tell.