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CaptainTruth

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1. One thing a lot of folks don't understand about random chance & statistics...

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Wed Dec 2, 2020, 03:20 PM

Dec 2020

...is that any given random sequence is just as probable as any other random sequence.

For example, in a truly random draw, 5-6-7-8-9-10 is just as likely as 1-7-3-10-8-4, it's just that we humans assign special meaning to the sequence 5-6-7-8-9-10. We regard it as unique, but the process doesn't care.

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One thing a lot of folks don't understand about random chance & statistics... CaptainTruth Dec 2020 #1