{"id":2095,"date":"2009-04-07T12:41:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2009-04-07T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:41:15","slug":"this-is-not-a-random-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2095","title":{"rendered":"This is Not a Random Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or <em>is<\/em> it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/04\/06\/perceiving-randomness\/\">Perceiving Randomness<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Humans are not very good at generating random sequences; when asked to come up with a \u201crandom\u201d 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\u2019t really there.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or is it? Perceiving Randomness Humans are not very good at generating random sequences; when asked to come up with a \u201crandom\u201d sequence of coin flips from their heads, they inevitably include too few long strings of the same outcome. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2095\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}