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I remember a Mythbusters episode where they were building a buttered-toast-dropper. To test the null hypothesis, they first did 10 runs without buttered toast,
by vacri 10y ago
I remember a Mythbusters episode where they were building a buttered-toast-dropper. To test the null hypothesis, they first did 10 runs without buttered toast, just marking one side with an X. They got 7/10 landing the same way up... and declared "It should be 5/10! This is not random enough!"...
- woof 10y agoOne hour Radiolab worth listening to: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91684-stochasticity/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/91684-stochasticity/