--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Valerie Pollard" <vpollard@...> wrote:
> In regard as to whether streaks exist - as the below quote states: Chance is lumpy....
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> Judgment of randomness
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> ? Which of the strings THTHTTHHTH, and HTTTTHHTHH looks
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> - People tend to think that random strings of events must be
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I hit a royal a week ago. After getting a hand pay, doing the paperwork and congratulating myself on the masterful solitary high card hold I went back to play the same machine. Wife: "You are going to play the same machine?" Me: "Why not?" It never occurred to me to change machines. Stochasticity... Radiolabs piece on randomness is an amusing listen.
http://www.radiolab.org/2009/jun/15/
Chandler
