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Random Numbers and Psychology
_\o/_ wrote
at 8:44 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 1:52 AM, Sunday October 21, 2007 EDT
you speak funny
shiffy wrote
at 2:18 AM, Sunday October 21, 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 3:28 AM, Sunday October 21, 2007 EDT
fuck you muthafuka
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