It’s just that humans are terrible at understanding the concept of randomness. A study by Theodore P. Hill showed that when tasked to pick a random number between 1 and 10, almost a third of the subjects (n was over 8500) picked 7. 10 was the least picked number (if you ditch the few idiots that picked 0).
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GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months agoWhat’s special about 37? Just that it’s prime or is there a superstition or pop culture reference I don’t know?
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Maybe randomness is a label we slapped on shit we don’t understand.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 months ago
I remember watching a lecture about probability, and the professor said that only quantum processes are really random, the rest of things that we call random is just the human inability to measure the variables that affects the random variable. I’m an actuarie, and it’s made me change the perspective on how I see and study random processes and how it made think on ways to influence the outcome of random processes.
jarfil@beehaw.org 8 months ago
…which is kind of a hilarious tautology, because “quantum processes” are by definition “processes that we are unable to decompose into more basic parts”.
The moment we learn about some more fundamental processes being the reason for a given process, it stops being “quantum” and the new ones become “it”.
K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Even quantum just appears random I think. it’s beyond our scope of perspective, it works in multiple dimensions. we only see part of the process. That’s my guess though it could be totally wrong
Zorque@kbin.social 8 months ago
gigachad@feddit.de 8 months ago
Johandea@feddit.nu 8 months ago
youtu.be/d6iQrh2TK98?feature=shared
Just a number dumb monkeys believe to be “more random”.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 8 months ago
tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
My art professor wrote a book about famous artists and thinkers dying at 37, www.ibs.it/…/9788804734017
jlow@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Only dudes, though, right?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
If you discount the pop-culture numbers (for us 7, 42, and 69) its the number most often chosen by people if you ask them for a random number between 1 and 100. It just seems the most random one to choose for a lot of people. Veritasium just did a video about it.
metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 8 months ago
37 is my favorite, because 3x7x37=777 (three sevens), and I think that’s neat.
mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Wrong. Two hints:
7x7=9 at the end, not 7.
30x30=900, already more than 777.
jarfil@beehaw.org 8 months ago
One hint: 3x7=21, 21x37=777.
When in doubt, use a calculator.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
? My calculator definitely thinks that 3x7x37=777. Did you read it as 37x37 instead?
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
What about 57
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I’m curious about that too. Something is twisting weights for 57 fairly strongly in the model but I’m not show what. Maybe its been trained on a bunch of old Heinz 57 varieties marketing.
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Wesley Snipes
northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Heinz Ketchup?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I think you mean heinz 57 the steak sauce…
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Another fun fact: if you ask people to pick 2/3rds of a number everyone else picks when asked the same question, the correct number is drumroll 24.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 months ago
I don’t like the inclusion of 37%, it’s 1/e that isn’t even 37%, is only that because of a pretty arbitrary rounding. Veritasium videos are usually OK, but this one is pretty meh.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 8 months ago
Is there some human sciences theory as to why?
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Thanks!
geography082@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Sorry but pop culture from were? I don’t recognize any of those numbers.
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Lucky number 7.
42 is the meaning of life in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
And 69…nice!
I’m guessing this is for US and UK culture? Probably a lot of other former and current English colonies
FryHyde@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
It’s not the meaning of life. It’s the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. Nobody knows what the Question is.