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For any six numbers that can exist or be drawn, once they are drawn can find something about them that is improbable. Sooooo, that found something improbable a
by graycat 4y ago
For any six numbers that can exist or be drawn, once they are drawn can find something about them that is improbable.
Sooooo, that found something improbable about the numbers, once they have been drawn, means essentially nothing.
- kgwgk 4y agoOn the other hand, those numbers were "special" before they were drawn - which is why more people played those numbers than would be expected for "non-special" combinations.
- lupire 4y ago"Essentially" is load-bearing there. You can compute the statistics to determine what number sets are more suspicious.
- graycat 4y agoI don't think we are on the same page: There have to be some uncountably infinitely many statistical tests can apply to six numbers, and given any list of 6 numbers it will have to fail, be very "suspicious", according to some of the tests. So, in this example, they took six numbers and found a test that it failed. Of course. Can always do that -- given 6 numbers, knowing the numbers, can always find a test that it fails. There is an old remark that some probability theory guys "didn't believe in statistics". Hmm