It’s well known in the security industry / compsci that humans are are very bad at generating, and recognizing, random numbers. I can’t recall if there’s a name for this bias; there’s the clustering illusion but that’s about recognizing random numbers, not trying to generate them.
This paper tries to analyze why this is hard for humans to do.
It’s well known in the security industry / compsci that humans are are very bad at generating, and recognizing, random numbers. I can’t recall if there’s a name for this bias; there’s the clustering illusion but that’s about recognizing random numbers, not trying to generate them.
This paper tries to analyze why this is hard for humans to do.