• BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    This is it. What people think random is vs what it really is are often different.

    The same song in a row three times is random etc. Randomness includes clumping. But most people think clumping isn’t random. We think shuffled is random.

    The button isn’t even called random anymore. It’s called shuffle.

    The book Fooled by Randomness is the best book on the phenomenon I’ve read. Taleb kills it in this book and it might be worth your time if this is interesting to you.