Which one is random?
(data sets are 100 numbers 1 to 6)
listA=[2,3,5,1,2,2,4,2,4,5,2,3,3,4,5,6,4,2,6,2,2,1,3,4,5,5,6,3,3,6,1,4,2,1,4,5,2,2,3,3,3,5,6,3,2,4,5,5,1,1,1,6,1,4,3,5,5,3,1,1,1,6,1,4,6,6,3,6,6,2,4,4,4,5,1,5,6,2,6,1,1,2,4,2,2,3,4,4,5,6,1,3,3,3,5,4,6,5,1,6]
listB=[4,2,5,6,3,5,3,1,3,4,2,3,4,3,4,5,5,1,3,3,2,1,1,6,1,3,2,2,2,6,1,5,6,3,6,3,2,3,2,4,6,1,1,6,3,2,4,1,6,1,3,1,5,6,2,3,3,5,1,6,4,5,2,5,1,1,5,3,6,2,3,3,6,5,2,3,3,1,6,3,2,3,2,1,6,6,4,4,6,2,4,5,4,5,3,4,6,5,3,2]
@futurebird Before I look at where the answer shows up, my guess would be that List A is random.
The odds of both dice being the same number when you roll 2 dice is 1/6 (36 possibilities, 6 desired results). For 3, that becomes 1/36. (6*6*6 possibilities, 6 desired).
What we have here is 98 consecutive possible places for a 3-of-a-kind to start. The odds that you would only draw the 1/36 chance ONCE (The 3 2's near the beginning of B) is something like....8%?
@futurebird The point is, having it appear once is something like a 94% chance. Seeing a 3-of-a-kind appear more than once is very much expected in a random distribution.
But it's NOT what we EXPECT a random distribution to look like, from a human perspective. When people see things like that appear, they get nervous. If they're making a list to LOOK random, having 3 of the same number in a row starts to feel NOT random, like it's some kind of pattern, and so they won't do it much.
@futurebird Also somehow I was wrong. Either I did my calculation wrong or that 8% chance really slipped through and I picked the absolutely wrong metric to judge this.
Alternately, I didn't consider HOW the non-random list was made and just assumed it was just someone with a pencil picking numbers based purely on vibes, when there was just a different, non-random methodology.
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