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Humans are also notoriously bad at choosing random numbers... Does that mean they are undependable and inherently untrustworthy?
by sdenton4 3y ago
Humans are also notoriously bad at choosing random numbers... Does that mean they are undependable and inherently untrustworthy?
- HarHarVeryFunny 3y agoTrue, but the most common human chosen random numbers from 1-100 are 37 and 73 (from a recent Veritasium episode). Obviously the number 42 is going to occur a lot in a web crawl, but might be expected in majority of cases to be in context of some "answer to everything" joke. I wonder are there really that many contexts where it is presented as a random number ?!
- sdenton4 3y agoWellll.... Watching that video now, it looks like the most-selected number in their poll of 200k people was 69, followed by 42. Once /those/ are eliminated, 37 and 73 stand out. https://youtu.be/d6iQrh2TK98?si=SOpczHGYxhQhP6Rg&t=280 https://youtu.be/d6iQrh2TK98?si=SOpczHGYxhQhP6Rg&t=280
- Terretta 3y ago> Does that mean they are undependable and inherently untrustworthy? yes, if you want random numbers (or unguessable passwords, or, or, or ...)