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by pyk 1513 days ago
If you have two people, you can have person A ask person B to “pick a random number”, and use heads for odd, tails for even. Don’t tell person B why you’re asking and my guess is you’re relatively random heads/tails. No studies that I am aware of to back this up, so people could be biased towards odd/even, but a bias correction could correct that too.
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I’d bet people generally think even numbers and multiples of 5 seem less random.
3 and 7 seem random :)