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The problem is that it didn't ask us to choose the numbers uniformly. Perhaps I picked from a Gaussian distribution with mean 5 and a strict cut-off at 1 and 10
by orijing 16y ago
The problem is that it didn't ask us to choose the numbers uniformly. Perhaps I picked from a Gaussian distribution with mean 5 and a strict cut-off at 1 and 10.
I don't think anything can be concluded unless it asked for "choose uniformly at random among the 10 numbers," if we want results robust against question biasing.
- Eliezer 16y ago"Choose randomly" is generally understood to mean "choose randomly from a probability distribution containing as much entropy as possible given the problem." I mean, I could choose from the probability distribution {0.001, 0.001, 0.998} but it's commonly understood that this isn't what's meant by the word "random". PS: I chose 2. Eat that, seveners!