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I can't tell, they both look totally random to me! You stumped me! Spooky huh? -- Am I wrong in thinking that this will only work with at best a random coin

I can't tell, they both look totally random to me! You stumped me! Spooky huh? -- Am I wrong in thinking that this will only work with at best a random coin flip precision? Not to mention that the few flips people will be willing to make means you lack any significant amount of data to make such a statement.

hdra 14y ago
the idea is that we human sucks at generating random number. When we try to generate a random number, we tend to overthink on how to make it random, and ended up exhibiting a certain pattern (such as evenly spaced data) that we think "random" numbers should have. I think his program tries to identify the one with said pattern, and classify the data with relatively even distribution as the one you thought up, so the point the articles is more about random number rather than correctly guessing what you did. The blog has a lot interesting articles on data analysis though, I think I will be spending quite some time going through them. :) edit: I didn't miss any sarcasm, did i?