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- How are reviewers describing this item?
good, random, most, different and first. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 51 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 5 2020.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
People are perhaps most predictable when they’re trying to be random
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
By misunderstanding randomness humans make fundamental mistakes playing games making bets and trying to outsmart hackers
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Poundstone begins by telling the story of how one person creating an outguessing machine that basically could figure out picking patterns by humans
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The revelation there is that people tend to create predictable patterns when they try to create random series
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
When we think of something random we almost automatically assume that this rules out repetition whereas the repetition of numbers can be a random outcome it just doesnt look that way to most people
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Neither this us title nor the uk title how to predict the unpredictable is very informative
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Another theme is exploiting observed nonuniformity in lottery number choices or in answer options on multiple choice tests
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
One idea involves “betting on the underdog” systems which people have derived from past data though the author seems unduly credulous about their future reliability
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