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Many years ago I read an article in a Toronto newspaper that did a study of the least popular numbers. They are essentially prime numbers like 31, 37, 41 etc.
by KSS42 13y ago
Many years ago I read an article in a Toronto newspaper that did a study of the least popular numbers. They are essentially prime numbers like 31, 37, 41 etc.
- nicholas73 13y agoFunny I think I gravitate towards picking those.
- ronaldx 13y agoDoubtful according to what I understand: 31 is still a potential (birth)date 37 falls heavily into human "randomness" bias, and is often quoted as the most picked psychologically "random" number (a number with distinct odd digits not ending in 5) e.g. http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/random.html http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/random.html
- jere 13y agoI have to agree with the other posters. Ask people to pick a random number 1-20 and they will tend to pick prime numbers such as 17. http://prasoondiwakar.com/wordpress/trivia/17-is-the-random-number http://prasoondiwakar.com/wordpress/trivia/17-is-the-random-... >The most random two-digit number is 37, When groups of people are polled to pick a “random number between 1 and 100”, the most commonly chosen number is 37. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R/random-numbers.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R/random-numbers.html Unless the lottery pickers aren't trying to pick a "random" number. I have no idea what their logic is anyway.