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Re: psychoceramics: Random numbers and OJ Simpson -Reply
- To: Eugene.L--@l--.uni-muenchen.de
- Subject: Re: psychoceramics: Random numbers and OJ Simpson -Reply
- From: Samantha Fleming <s.fleming @ elsevier.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 09:25:07 +0100
- Cc: p--@z--.net
- Sender: owner-psychoceramics
>>> Eugene Leitl <Eugene.L--@l--.uni-muenchen.de> 05/07/97 :2202
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.
This be a double-blind, or whatt?
- It was a TV documentary and he wasn't going into much detail. No faraday cage
around the RNG, no scale on the graph he used to demonstrate the increase in
order, certainly no mention of how the calculation was done
This is magickal thinking. Would be truly great fun, if only it would work :(
- Someone is *paying* this bloke to do this research, and has been doing so for
seven years. It makes me wonder what he's doing to convince them he's getting
somewhere...
Rev.hippy