Lee Corbin writes:
>Richard writes
>
> > >How, essentially, does this differ from the casino game of
> > >roulette?
>
><SNIP>
>
> > And there are people who are good at it. Everyone calls them "lucky"
>which
> > really doesn't explain much. Some of us routinely choose the wrong
>queue,
> > others get the correct one (queuing theory and probability offer good
> > explanations for this sort of thing, but other factors may simply
>involve
> > an ability to sample alternate worlds.
>
>I don't believe that there are lucky people, except as a perfectly
>ordinary and expected random fluctuation. If there were, don't you
>think that it would pay the casinos to find these people and keep
>them from playing? And why haven't the psychics been all over
>this? Besides, there are plenty of scientists who'd lust *jove*
>to prove this.
As it happens, the casinos *are* finding the lucky people and stopping them
from playing. It is apparently possible, if you have the right sort of
brain, to count cards in blackjack and, over time, come out slightly ahead
of the house. I believe there was a group of MIT students who went around
the country doing just this, until they realised that the frequency of their
encounters with thugs offering to break important bones could not be
explained by chance alone.
--Stathis Papaioannou
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Received on Thu May 26 2005 - 08:36:28 PDT