Thanks for the loot lesson

[Funzo]

Had a brilliant MENSA member of a player tell the group we were in how rolling 1 to 1000 gives everyone better odds of winning an item then rolling 5 to 555.
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/ignore Sslassher

Someone needs to give natural selection a push. :x

[Lorathir]

Someone needs to give natural selection a push. :x

That's simply priceless.  8)

[Vecsus]

sounds like a guy I know that is taking a statistics class.  he's now convinced that the odds of winning the lottery are so low that it's statisticly impossible to win at all.   I told him that statement proves how dorked up statictics really are.

[TerjynPovar]

Statistically impossible means different things to different people.

Statistically, there is a 0.000000% chance of winning the lottery (accurate to 6 decimal places).

A lot of people would refer to that as statistically impossible.  Improbably certainly.

[Coprolith]

sounds like a guy I know that is taking a statistics class. he's now convinced that the odds of winning the lottery are so low that it's statisticly impossible to win at all. I told him that statement proves how dorked up statictics really are.

No, that statements proves how dorked up people who have just begun taking statistics class can be

"statistics don't lie, statisticians do"

[Lorathir]

85% of statistics are made up.

:wink:

[Skullet Crossbones]

I have a 50% chance to win the lottery......50% i lose, 50% i win  8)

[Zorithi]

Practically speaking, each person in a 6-person group should have a 1-in-6 chance of getting the high number in a 1-1000 roll.  I mean, generally speaking, 6 people roll and 1 person wins.

But statistics would have to account for the possibility of the high roll being a tie between one or more of the rollers.  In this case, assuming only the ones with the tied numbers rerolled, then the probability of one of the tied participants winning changes, changes to 1-in-2 (for instance).  Since every person in the group has an equal probability to roll a tie, then logically there is actually a statistical probability measurably greater than 1-in-6 of any one person winning the roll (as seen prior to the initial roll).

If the total numbers possible are cut in half to 1-500, there is a statistical increase in the chance to roll a tie between 2 or more rollers, as there are fewer numbers to go around but the same number of rollers.  Therefore, everone in the group has a greater chance of getting into the group of tied rerollers.  By increasing the statistical probability of rolling a tie, you have just statistically increased the chance of winning for everyone participating.

Do I have the math to prove this?  Nope.

Does it matter?  Nope.

It's midnight, my team lost, and I can only hope I'm not taken seriously.   :lol:

I think the logic works though, if there are any real statisticians out there who can supply the math.

[Coprolith]

Nice try Zorithi but no cigar  :lol:

If there is no re-roll on a tie, you have actually decreased the chance to win the roll straight out, since the chance of rolling a tie gets larger as the range of the roll decreases. But each person still has the same chance to win, and the same chance to end up in a tie. If there is a re-roll on a tie, then each member still has the same chance of winning. 6 members = 1 in 6 chance to win no matter what the range of numbers is.

/hugs

[Merescata]

ok ok my brain's about to explode
and now my pet is pissed that I forgot to heal him

curses that RNG

[Zorithi]

Oh, well.  It sounded good last night.  I would be interested in seeing the math involved but not enough to go research it.

My degree in Business is from 1978 and it wasn't real strong in stats to begin with.   :roll:

[ImoAB]

93.7% of all statistics are made up......

[spoottquickblade]

Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
27%t of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
Ugly criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average, than good-looking criminals.
85% of women wear the wrong bra size.
Only 30% of us can flare our nostrils.
21% of us don't make our bed daily. 5% of us never do.
Men do 29% of laundry each week. Only 7% of women trust their husbands to do it correctly.
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
85% of men don't use the slit in their underwear.
67.5% of men wear briefs.
13% of us admit to occasionally doing our offspring's homework.
91% of us lie regularly.
27% admit to cheating on a test or quiz.
29% admit they've intentionally stolen something from a store.
50% admit they regularly sneak food into movie theaters to avoid the high prices of snack foods.
90% believe in divine retribution.
10% believe in the 10 Commandments.
82% believe in an afterlife.
45% believe in ghosts.
13% (mostly men) have spent a night in jail.
29% of us are virgins when we marry.
58.4% have called into work sick when we weren't.
10% of us switch tags in the store to pay less for an item.
Over 50% believe in spanking - but only a child over 2 years old.
35% give to charity at least once a month.
How far would you go for $10 million? 25% would abandon their friends, family, and church. 7% would murder.
69% eat the cake before the frosting.
When nobody else is around, 47% drink straight from the carton.
85% of us will eat Spam this year.
70% of us drink orange juice daily.
Snickers is the most popular candy.
22% of us skip lunch daily.
9% of us skip breakfast daily.
66% of us eat cereal regularly.
22% of all restaurant meals include french fries.
14% of us eat the watermelon seeds.
Only 13% brush our teeth from side to side.
45% use mouthwash every day.
22% leave the glob of toothpaste in the sink.
The typical shower is 101 degrees F.
Nearly 1/3 of U.S. women color their hair.
9% of women and 8% of men have had cosmetic surgery.
53% of women will not leave the house without makeup on.
58% of women paint their nails regularly.
62% of us pop our zits.
33% of women lie about their weight.
10% of us claim to have seen a ghost.
57% have had deja vu.
49% believe in ESP.
4 out of 5 of us have suffered from hemorrhoids.
The average girl starts her period at age 12.
44% have broken a bone.
Only 30% of us know our cholesterol level.
14% have attended a self-help meeting.
15% regularly go to a shrink.
78% would rather die quickly than live in a retirement home.
46.5% of men say they ALWAYS put the seat down after they've used the toilet, yet women claim to ALWAYS find it up.
30% of us refuse to sit on a public toilet seat.
54.2% of us always wash our hands after using the toilet.
23.5% admit they don't always flush.
45.2% pee in the shower.
44.9% pee in the ocean.
28.1% pee in the pool.
55.2% will let someone else come in the bathroom while they're using the toilet.
39% of us peek in our host's bathroom cabinet. 17% have been caught by the host.
81.3% would tell an acquaintance to zip his pants.
29% of us ignore RSVP.
71.6% of us eavesdrop.
22% are functionally illiterate.
Less than 10% are trilingual.
37% claim to know how to use all the features on their VCR.
53% prefer ATM machines over tellers.
56% of women do the bills in a marriage.
2 out of 3 of us wouldn't give up our spouse even for a night for a million bucks.
20% of us have played in a band at one time in our life.
40% of us have had music lessons.
44% reuse tinfoil.
57% save pretty gift paper to reuse.
66% of women and 59% of men have used a mix to cook and taken credit for doing it from scratch.
53% read their horoscopes regularly.
16% of us have forgotten our own wedding anniversary (mostly men).
59% of us say we're average-looking.
90% of us depend on alarm clocks to wake us.
53% of us would take advice from Anne Landers.
28% of us have skinny-dipped. 14% with the opposite sex.
51% of adults dress up for a Halloween festivity.
On average, we send 38 Christmas cards every year.
20% of women consider their parents to be their best friends.
2 out of 5 have married their first love.
The biggest cause of matrimonial fighting is money.
Only 4% asked the parents' approval for their bride's hand.
1 in 5 men proposed on his knees.
6% propose over the phone.
71% can drive a stick-shift car.
45% of us consistently follow the speed limit.
2/3 of us speed up at a yellow light.
1/3 of us don't wear seat belts.
12% of men never use their car blinkers.
44% of men tailgate to speed up the person in front of them.
25% of us drive after we've been drinking.
4 out of 5 sing in the car.
The average sexual experience lasts about 39 minutes.
Men say the average erect penis is 10". Women say it's 4".
56% of men have had sex at work.
1 in 3 of us have had an extramarital affair.
62% think there is nothing wrong with affairs.
60% of men and 54% of women have had a 1-night stand


RAR~ meow

[Lorathir]

57% save pretty gift paper to reuse.

These people are evil and must be stopped.

[Moonchaser]

I like pie