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A QUIBBLE ABOUT RANDOM PROCESSES.

July 31, 2009 at 7:27 PM · Uncategorized

A QUIBBLE ABOUT RANDOM PROCESSES. David Adler in his article says: “But we are also fooled by nearly random processes that look random, even if they aren’t, because the differences are too subtle for us to notice.” Kids, I would think of the results of an “ordinary person” flipping a coin as still being a random process—only the mean of the random process is .51 rather than .50.