My method for doing this is to imagine a spinner partitioned into certain sections (like a pie chart of the intended distribution), and then imagine spinning it rapidly and watching it slow down and seeing where it lands. I don’t know how well this actually works, but I adopted it after seeing a poll like the ones you linked asking people to choose based on this method, which ended up being very close. It’s does take a decent amount of mental effort, as well as a couple seconds for each round—I’d expect any method that works to have these properties.
I wonder if, in that case, your brain picks the stopping time, stopping point or “flick” strength using the same RNG source that is used when people just do it by feeling.
What if you tried a 50-50 slider on Aaronson’s oracle, if it’s not too exhausting to do it many times in a row? Or write down a sequence here and we can do randomness tests on it. Though I did see some tiny studies indicating that people can improve at generating random sequences.
My method is to come up with a phrase or find a phrase written somewhere nearby, count the syllables or letters, and take this value modulo the number of bins. For the topicstarter’s poll, I found a sentence on a whiteboard near myself, counted its letters modulo 10, got 5, so I voted for 30%, because the bins were like 20% − 30% − 50%.
My method for doing this is to imagine a spinner partitioned into certain sections (like a pie chart of the intended distribution), and then imagine spinning it rapidly and watching it slow down and seeing where it lands. I don’t know how well this actually works, but I adopted it after seeing a poll like the ones you linked asking people to choose based on this method, which ended up being very close. It’s does take a decent amount of mental effort, as well as a couple seconds for each round—I’d expect any method that works to have these properties.
I wonder if, in that case, your brain picks the stopping time, stopping point or “flick” strength using the same RNG source that is used when people just do it by feeling.
What if you tried a 50-50 slider on Aaronson’s oracle, if it’s not too exhausting to do it many times in a row? Or write down a sequence here and we can do randomness tests on it. Though I did see some tiny studies indicating that people can improve at generating random sequences.
My method is to come up with a phrase or find a phrase written somewhere nearby, count the syllables or letters, and take this value modulo the number of bins. For the topicstarter’s poll, I found a sentence on a whiteboard near myself, counted its letters modulo 10, got 5, so I voted for 30%, because the bins were like 20% − 30% − 50%.
My method is to generate a random sentence and then assign a 0 to letters before m and a 1 to letters afterwards. This is pretty fast.