How well to humans know random?

Discussion in 'Psychology' started by n00b7r4d3r, May 25, 2008.

  1. You can look at the distribution of people posting in the es journal over time:

    http://www.donotrememberthisaddress.com/financialmarkets/esposters.php
     
    #51     May 27, 2008
  2. I think that makes 11 so far...
     
    #52     May 29, 2008
  3. kmkkra

    kmkkra

    I noticed a definite bias while typing, I kept going from my left hand to right, which produced a very unrandom set of 0's and 1's. So I decided to give two different samples. The first sample was created with my left hand typing 1-5 and my right - 6-0. I suppose you could think 1-5 as "1" and 6-0 as "0". The second sample, however, is exactly what you asked for.

    --------------------------------------
    FIRST SAMPLE:


    6578310238
    3838474748
    3092837478
    3839201928
    9377489392

    0929938947
    8100110837
    4783929837
    4747839280
    1029837478


    Translation of first sample into 0's and 1's:

    0100110110
    1010101010
    1001010100
    1010101010
    0100100101

    0010010010
    0100110010
    1001010010
    1010010100
    1010010100


    -----------------------------------------












    SECOND SAMPLE:

    1010101010
    1001010101
    0101001010
    1011001010
    1010101010

    1010101010
    1011010100
    1010101010
    1010101010
    1010101010

    -------------------------------
     
    #53     May 30, 2008
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    #54     Jun 1, 2008
  5. G-Boa

    G-Boa

    1111101111
    1110100011
    0001000000
    1000000011
    1101010100

    1000011011
    0000100000
    0001111011
    1101100111
    1110111111
     
    #55     Jun 1, 2008
  6. KH86

    KH86

    1010010110
    1010001001
    0101011101
    0011101001
    0110101011

    1010001010
    1001011001
    0101001101
    1010100111
    0010011000
     
    #56     Jun 3, 2008
  7. keep em comin
     
    #57     Jun 3, 2008
  8. I don't think anything is random.

    Random is just a word for 'lack of information.'


    A coin toss is not random. If we could measure the velocity, slope, density of the ground, etc... we would know if heads or tails would come up almost every time.
     
    #58     Jun 3, 2008
  9. This is one of the reasons why people argue so much about the random walk hypothesis. People do not agree on the definition of what random means.
     
    #59     Jun 3, 2008
  10. I think we got 13 now. At this rate we should be at 40 by just over 7000 views.
     
    #60     Jun 6, 2008