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To: Alamo-Girl
A "random" event in nature is like that. We don't know what the system "is." What we really mean is that part we are observing is "unpredictable."

In science, chemistry for example, a random sample would be exactly like the next random sample, all the same and predictable to any degree you care to measure.

39 posted on 03/15/2008 9:30:14 AM PDT by RightWhale (Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
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To: RightWhale
If the observation is qualified "as far as we are able to measure" - and if it is factually a "uniform distribution" - then there is no misleading.
43 posted on 03/15/2008 9:36:48 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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