How to pick a random number from 1-10

Post by Ill_ban_myself » Sat, Jul 06, 2019, 5:31 AM UTC

sokoloff wrote: post #159

OscarCunningham wrote: post #146

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You might be right, but my guess is that 7's reputation for luck isn't famous enough to make a difference, and in fact it's common because other numbers seem too "unrandom". We could test by asking people to pick numbers less than 100. I bet people would focus on odd numbers, especially those greater than 50, not ending in 5 or not having both digits the same.

I decided to do that. Data and light analysis is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dh0wiTCRkBhckWGXtjZg... I definitely overpaid on Mechanical Turk per response, given how lightning quickly the data came in. (I decided to pay $0.10/HIT for 50 responses and got 68 responses in 8m26s.) I suspect that offering a nickel would have gotten the survey filled in under half an hour still...

Post by your-nanny » Sat, Jul 06, 2019, 12:16 PM UTC

suf wrote: post #163

your-nanny wrote: post #155

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does this algorithm have a name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor#Von_Neuma...