Re:A professor who beat roulette
by alasdair_ on Sunday February 27, 2022 @01:05PM
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>What possible mechanism could cause that?
As a pure hypothetical, definitely not saying it's what happened in this case: if the wheel's bias is based on where the ball is initially dropped in, and a human operator is the one that chooses where to drop in the ball, it's possible that the operator does something simple like choosing a spot opposite the number that last won the round and that this human bias affected the result in some way.
As a pure hypothetical, definitely not saying it's what happened in this case: if the wheel's bias is based on where the ball is initially dropped in, and a human operator is the one that chooses where to drop in the ball, it's possible that the operator does something simple like choosing a spot opposite the number that last won the round and that this human bias affected the result in some way.