Re: High Stats


Mark wrote:

But as noted above, stats like this will never happen.

They are guaranteed to happen, as much as anything is.
Never rolling any anomalously high rolls is itself extremely
unlikely.


They are theoretically possible,

This contradicts your first statement.


but in practice it means that the dice were loaded by
someone who doesn't understand probability.

Assuming the dice were loaded, how does the resultant
distribution show that the person that loaded the dice
did not understand probability?


Check their pockets for scratchcards.

Those are receipts for the innumeracy tax.


MadKaugh

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