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Re:No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with... by jackpirate on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @02:08PM (#22311723)
To add to your point: I ran some experiments a while back with curved coins. The coins have to be absurdly shaped before the shape affects the outcomes:

https://izbicki.me/blog/how-to-create-an-unfair-coin-and-pro...

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Re:No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with... by Retric on Thursday February 13, 2020 @08:52AM (#22317698)
Falling below the noise floor is different from proving no correlation. Negative results for a given experiment simply mean it’s below an the experiments ability to detect.

Aka, you need to pick a threshold for bias that’s interesting before designing the experiment. A casino might care a great deal about say 0.5% bias which would take a lot of trials to detect.

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Re:No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with... by mythz on Thursday February 13, 2020 @07:02AM (#22317061)
I respect the level of free time taken to run and publish this experiment!

Interesting results, I thought they'd be more skewed.

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