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Random Numbers and Psychology
_\o/_ wrote
at 4:44 PM, Thursday October 18, 2007 EDT
....sigh....

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ok people ... please listen this time.
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random numbers are random ... it doesnt matter how many times you THINK you should win/lose ... the rng algo still runs a random sequence
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ask any first year psycho student about the HUNDREDS of studies on how humans see patterns in chaos and you will start to understand it a little more
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you WANT to see a patter ... you NEED to see some pattern and so you DO see a pattern
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an old book on the matter can be seen through google here: http://books.google.com/books?id=B4agXAUYv6QC&dq=psychology+and+random+numbers

The actual recitation is here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=B4agXAUYv6QC&pg=RA3-PA201&lpg=RA3-PA201&dq=psychology+and+random+numbers&source=web&ots=JVMj9Y9Iyr&sig=gnAYa77PNSRIlYqTDxJDk8UVNCI#PRA3-PA204,M1
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yes, yes, i know ... but you just KNOW in your dear little heart that this isn't really really really really random ... there MUST be something going on!
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you are right ... it's your little brain telling you that there is a pattern where none exists
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so listen up snowflake ... it's random ... get over it.

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_\o/_ wrote
at 9:52 PM, Saturday October 20, 2007 EDT
you speak funny
shiffy wrote
at 10:18 PM, Saturday October 20, 2007 EDT
the point is even if its not truly completely random everyone is affected by it equally so it might as well be
119Legend wrote
at 11:28 PM, Saturday October 20, 2007 EDT
fuck you muthafuka
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