Misdirection sponsored by Camelot
Well Derren Brown is predicting the lottery numbers. Live. In only an hour. This man is brilliant, he reminds us that he is a master of misdirection. I think he misdirects us on a higher plane than we think. He always reminds us that what we see isn't necessarily what is actually happen. No doubt in an hour we will think the numbers written on paper in a sealed envelope remained in that envelope for the entirity. There are 13,983,816 possible combinations to play. There is no way he will "predict" the numbers. This is an interesting one and has inspired me and my sciency buddies to get into a nerdy debate. Statistics is horibbly complex. I mean when you forget about finding means, medians and modes the actual nature of statistics gets horrible. Right so the chance of winning the lottery is 1/13,983,816. Great. Easy. Also every combination has an equal chance of winning. So you can chose 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 1, 5, 13, 20, 37, 43. Both have an equal chance of winning. (Inte...