Re: psychoceramics: Random numbers and OJ Simpson

[Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl @ lrz.uni-muenchen.de>]

On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Samantha Fleming wrote:

> Apparently someone at the University of Nevada has had random number generators
> producing 70 random numbers a minute for a while now, and he says that when the

True random, or pseudorandom? See no way how this could have happened to 
the latter. It would screw up lots of physical processes for the former.
Either way, damn unlikely.

> OJ Simpson trial first went on the TV there was a huge increase in order in the
> numbers generated. He reckons there was less chaos in the world because lots of

This be a double-blind, or whatt?

> people were thinking about the same thing. Does anyone know how to determine the

This is magickal thinking. Would be truly great fun, if only it would work :(

> quantity of order in a 'random' series, and whether there are other experiments
> of this kind being done?

Afaik there are none.

'gene

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