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[5] The Consistency of Random Numbers

Posted on October 23, 2013January 25, 2019 by Leif Nelson

What’s your favorite number between 1 and 100? Now, think of a random number between 1 and 100. My goal for this post is to compare those two responses. Number preferences feel random. They aren’t. “Random” numbers also feel random. Those aren’t random either. I collected some data, found a pair of austere academic papers,…

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