Timeline for In a random vs in a randomised order
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| Mar 28, 2018 at 9:19 | vote | accept | csandreas1 | ||
| Mar 28, 2018 at 9:07 | comment | added | WS2 | @KarlG I suppose every time you shuffle a pack of cards you "randomise" the order. I'm not sure how random-number generators are programmed, but I suppose it is something like that. But from what I've been told many do have inherent bias - but I suspect we are getting off the subject. | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 21:44 | comment | added | KarlG | @WS2: Yes, the numbers are random after being randomized by shuffling. | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 21:42 | comment | added | WS2 | I think the drawing of shuffled numbers from a hat probably works. | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 21:26 | comment | added | KarlG | This isn't my area of expertise, but computer programs designed to assure totally random results are elaborate affairs. It's difficult to imitate, say, the machine that blows the balls about for a lottery draw. The main point is that random is essentially passive and randomize/ise is an active process. | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 21:24 | comment | added | Zebrafish | @WS2 "How can something be "deliberately random"? Haha. Well, you could deliberately draw shuffled numbers from a hat, or you could deliberately count in order from 1 to 10, both are deliberate, one is random and the other is, well, a sequence of our counting numbers, not random. Or if I want to spawn a monster in my video game, I could deliberately make it spawn at coordinates (2, 2, 2), or I could deliberately get the coordinates from a random number generator, and they would be random. I admit "deliberately random way" wouldn't be the best way to put it. | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 21:13 | comment | added | WS2 | My dictionary does go on to define "randomise" as "to set up in a deliberately random way...". How can something be "deliberately random"? Is it not like being "deliberately unintentional" - a contradiction in terms! | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 21:09 | comment | added | WS2 | Is not "random" a natural condition that precedes interference or organisation by another party? Is it in fact possible to randomise something? My dictionary defines "random" as "lacking any definite plan or rearranged order". If an external "randomising" force or party acts on something can the result be described as "random", since the force must be applying its own artificial criteria. | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 20:09 | history | answered | KarlG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |