FAaAQ
Frequently Asked and Anticipated Questions

Why must I request a sample for analysis before I generate it?
Let us take this sequence of 100 random numbers between 1 and 6,
3 3 5 6 1 4 1 4 5 6 6 4 1 6 2 5 1 5 1 6 3 3 6 4 6 4 1 3 6 5 1 5 1 4 2 1 3 2 3 4 4 6 5 4 3 5 4 2 3 6 5 1 3 5 6 6 4 1 1 5 6 5 1 6 2 3 1 4 2 5 3 4 1 3 1 2 2 4 2 2 5 2 3 5 4 6 2 3 5 1 1 3 1 2 3 3 3 2 1 1
generated here
http://www.psychicscience.org/random.aspx
After you have created it, you might complain that your last 11 rolls were extremely unlucky, and therefore the random number generator is broken. This doesn't prove anything, as almost any sequence of 100 random numbers between 1 and 6 will either have a streak of 10 good rolls, or a streak of 10 bad rolls, or 4 sixes in a row, or 5 ones in a row, or...


I have just completed these 10 games. Can we add them to the list?
No. See the question above.


So what are you really checking?
For you statistical smartasses out there. What we are checking really is that any sample (as defined in (1-2)) has mean 3.5 and standard deviation 1.71. Nothing more, nothing less than this.

Why 1.71?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=sqrt(((0.5)^2%2B(1.5)^2%2B(2.5)^2)%2F3

--- Message edited by flying_neko