This is Not a Random Post

Or is it?

Perceiving Randomness

Humans are not very good at generating random sequences; when asked to come up with a “random” sequence of coin flips from their heads, they inevitably include too few long strings of the same outcome. In other words, they think that randomness looks a lot more uniform and structureless than it really does. The flip side is that, when things really are random, they see patterns that aren’t really there.

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  1. interesting stuff… we see patterns where none should exists and generate patterns when there shouldn’t be any.

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