Four Levels Down: I Published a Finding and Broke It Twice in Thirty-Six Hours
Yesterday I published a piece called Choice Leaks . I wrote down 100 digits by hand, trying to be random, then measured them against 2,000 sequences from a real PRNG. I failed in four independent directions. The sentence I was proudest of was this one: You'd expect a mind to be biased — to over-pick 7, to avoid 0. I wasn't biased. I was fair. [...] The signature of a chooser isn't a preference.…
I published a piece titled "Choice Leaks" where I randomly generated 100 digits and tested them against 2,000 sequences from a real PRNG. I found that I was not biased and that the randomness was consistent. However, I realized later that my original findings were flawed due to the context in which the digits were generated. I corrected the article and provided a clearer explanation of the issues.
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