Random Quotes on 100definitions.Com
Every time a page on 100definitions.com loads, a random quote from a big list of quotes appears.
I was pointed out that it wasn’t random, because the same quote or same group of quotes would keep appearing over and over again. That’s the part when I thought of something Charlie Eppes, portrayed by David Krumholtz, said:
“Our brains misperceive evenness as random and wrongly assume that groupings are deliberate. Because of this, people make all sorts of irrational decisions like they won’t work on a high-rise building, or they are afraid to live in an earthquake prone area and yet, the mathematical assessment tells us that you are far more likely to suffocate in bed than you are of dying a terrorist attack, you are ten times more likely to die from alcohol than from being in an earthquake, and it is three times more likely that you will be killed while driving to buy a lottery ticket than it is that you will win the lottery.”
The shuffle option on the iPod and in iTunes is actually not random, because it will never play the same song twice in a row.
I remember this cover I made last year. I asked someone if they found if the photos were randomly place and they answered no because there are no photos on the right side. That’s another example of randomness being misperceived.
Basically, on 100definitions.com, the quotes do change randomly, at least as perceived by the machine.
