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I actually laughed out loud when I saw the image of the human RNG distributions. 7 is a random number. Who knew?
by rland 7y ago
I actually laughed out loud when I saw the image of the human RNG distributions. 7 is a random number. Who knew?
- seba_dos1 7y ago7 was what came into my mind right after reading the title. Seeing it later in the text felt like a magic trick.
- jldugger 7y agoI feel like you could probably 'fix' it by the following protocol: 1. Ask your participant to write down a random number. 2. After they've written that number down, inform them you will guess at their number, and give them a dollar if you guess wrong. 3. Ask if they'd like to change their random number. 4. Allow them to write down their new number. The before/after would probably change the distribution, and pretty much demonstrate that people can be more random when motivated.
- gmac 7y agoI'm sure the distribution would change, but not sure it would be closer to uniform. It's now a completely different problem: choose a number most resistant to guessing. For example, if the participant hypothesises that your guess will be a "random" number chosen by you, she should always pick 10.