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I really enjoy these fun thought experiments. The only thing I didn't see clarified though is whether the die was loaded using the water only once, or whether
by rando444 9y ago
I really enjoy these fun thought experiments.
The only thing I didn't see clarified though is whether the die was loaded using the water only once, or whether they re-loaded the die every night during the week they were testing.
- jackpirate 9y agoHi, author here. I loaded the dice only once. The weighed 0.65 ounces before hand, and 0.75 ounces afterward. They kept that weight the whole week.
- nonbel 9y agoSo a suspicious player could detect the loaded dice simply by weighing them? That actually makes a lot of sense. If you look into actual dice/coin manufacturing they do not run tests like "roll a sample of dice a million times each, then check p-value". Instead they have a clever manufacturing process with stringent tolerances. If they run such tests at all it would be to find the upper bound on deviation from fairness over the lifetime of the dice (eg 100k rolls).