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> what the word "random" really means (as opposed to her previous definition for the word, from some Disney channel show) I am morbidly curious for details.
by saraid216 13y ago
> what the word "random" really means (as opposed to her previous definition for the word, from some Disney channel show)
I am morbidly curious for details.
- Houshalter 13y agoI found this http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40378347?uid=3739840&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21102596037487 http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40378347?uid=3739840&u... >A common misconception is that 'randomness' must involve continual change. Ask a group of early high school students to invent a series of 20 random numbers from the integers 1 to 6 and you will usually find some who deliberately never write the same number twice in a row. If you then draw the analogy to rolling a die 20 times, and point out that this process can give the same number twice in a row, some students may insist that this means the die isn't random! Though that doesn't sound like what OP meant.
- kbutler 13y agoProbably the informal "odd, unusual, or unexpected" rather than "made, done, happening, or chosen without method or conscious decision" (definitions from google) See Disney show: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Random http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Random!
- saraid216 13y agoThis fits all the data known, and also makes sense and is plausible.