Let’s say I provide you with a string of random numbers copied from the best random number table you care to offer. No, we go to Jon, and holding the table in our laps, we correctly guess every number in the sequence. Were those numbers random? Or to make it even easier, let Jon make a judgement of the randomness of the sequence and then let the sequence recycle and repeat it self exactly.
I know that these are “citizen” questions. I have never quite grasped the concept of randomness (as you see).
Nick
Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
From: Friam <[hidden email]> On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2020 4:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] New ways of understanding the world
Hmm. Every third number in this apparently random sequence is even. Order? What's order? Nonrandomness?
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