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To: mlo
"It isn't in "my world", it's what the word means. This is about a statistical argument. Statistically speaking, "random" means it has a uniform distribution, in that any possible outcome is equally likely. That's it. It has nothing to do with a lack of intelligent bias."

How would you get a non-uniform, non-random probability distribution without intelligent bias?

105 posted on 03/05/2002 2:57:49 PM PST by Southack
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To: Southack
How would you get a non-uniform, non-random probability distribution without intelligent bias?

Why do you assume the only kind of bias is an intelligent one?

109 posted on 03/05/2002 3:00:39 PM PST by mlo
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To: Southack
How would you get a non-uniform, non-random probability distribution without intelligent bias?

I'm not sure what you mean by non-random here, but it's trivial to get non-uniform distributions. Beta decay is exponential in time, not uniform. Ortho and para hydrogen form in various mixtures depending on temperature, 75% to 25% at room temperature, not uniform.

214 posted on 03/05/2002 8:29:06 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic
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