DDM, I dunno man..
Remember that set of numbers I kept seeing, and you said it's nothing, it just seems worse then it is because I'm looking for it?
Other day, a laptop sent from QVC had ram with those same three numbers.
Today, two Chinese fishing calls, last three digits were the three numbers.
A random Google search about five days ago turns up those three numbers.
All told, I think in a week, those digits popped up at least five times (Counting the Corona page)
What are the odds?
Originally posted by cdtm
Remember that set of numbers I kept seeing, and you said it's nothing, it just seems worse then it is because I'm looking for it?Other day, a laptop sent from QVC had ram with those same three numbers.
Today, two Chinese fishing calls, last three digits were the three numbers.
A random Google search about five days ago turns up those three numbers.
All told, I think in a week, those digits popped up at least five times (Counting the Corona page)
What are the odds?
I don't understand, is this some "The Number 23" type of thing?
There was something semi-related on an NPR show like 10 years ago. might have been radio lab. It described an exercise/experiment, the point of which was to show that our perception of normal odds can actually be the most wildly speculative.
In this exercise, participants were first told to imagine a series of coin flips, and list every result. typically people would keep it ordered. "heads, tails, tails, heads, tails, heads, heads, tails [...]. because a coin toss is 50/50 chance, that's what they expect to see.
Then the participants were told to flip a real coin and document the results. in all cases, extensive coincidences always happened. 4,5,6,7,8(Etc) consective flips with the same side turning up.
Originally posted by Bashar TegActually, because of the way a coin is formed, the weight is distributed more to the heads side, meaning it will have more priority in landing on that side so go for tails!
There was something semi-related on an NPR show like 10 years ago. might have been radio lab. It described an exercise/experiment, the point of which was to show that our perception of normal odds can actually be the most wildly speculative.In this exercise, participants were first told to imagine a series of coin flips, and list every result. typically people would keep it ordered. "heads, tails, tails, heads, tails, heads, heads, tails [...]. because a coin toss is 50/50 chance, that's what they expect to see.
Then the participants were told to flip a real coin and document the results. in all cases, extensive coincidences always happened. 4,5,6,7,8(Etc) convective flips with the same side turning up.
Originally posted by Blakemore
Actually, because of the way a coin is formed, the weight is distributed more to the heads side, meaning it will have more priority in landing on that side so go for tails!
true, but that plays further into the illusion of ordered chance. You'll still get the same results. Try it. do 50 flips. if you don't see at least one 5-in-row streak of tails, I'll eat crow.
Originally posted by Bashar TegThere's also the factor of flipping it onto the back of your other hand, which I always thought was a dick move.
true, but that plays further into the illusion of ordered chance. You'll still get the same results. Try it. do 50 flips. if you don't see at least one 5-in-row streak of tails, I'll eat crow.
Originally posted by cdtm
Remember that set of numbers I kept seeing, and you said it's nothing, it just seems worse then it is because I'm looking for it?Other day, a laptop sent from QVC had ram with those same three numbers.
Today, two Chinese fishing calls, last three digits were the three numbers.
A random Google search about five days ago turns up those three numbers.
All told, I think in a week, those digits popped up at least five times (Counting the Corona page)
What are the odds?
Is it 420...?