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Love it! He had an assumption, created a method of testing that assumption, tried it multiple times, was proven wrong and accepted it.
Now, if more people could operate this way…
For anyone who doesn’t read the article, the biases shown in the thumbnail are not the final result. After doing a million runs, every digit had close to the same probability of appearing.
Pretty cool to show that sample size matters a lot during testing…
Sample size = 10: “There’s 20% 8! WTF, should be 10%”
Sample size = 10k+: “Oh wait nevermind”