Comment Re:Whoah (Score 1) 574
There are lots of examples of this.. people think they're doing something at random, while human nature makes their actions anything but. Take Zener cards, for example - the ones they use to test people for ESP.
There are five different designs, (circle, cross, three wavy lines, square, and star). If you ask a person to pick one of those cards at random, you'd think the odds of any single card being chosen is 20%. Actually, the star gets chosen much more often then any other design.
Same thing if you ask a person to make a simple drawing of anything they can think of. You'd think people would draw all kinds of things, but most of the time they'll draw a house or a stick figure. It seems to be random and unpredictable, but it's really not.
There are five different designs, (circle, cross, three wavy lines, square, and star). If you ask a person to pick one of those cards at random, you'd think the odds of any single card being chosen is 20%. Actually, the star gets chosen much more often then any other design.
Same thing if you ask a person to make a simple drawing of anything they can think of. You'd think people would draw all kinds of things, but most of the time they'll draw a house or a stick figure. It seems to be random and unpredictable, but it's really not.
