(05-13-2016 08:19 AM)Tad Carlucci Wrote: You know the algorithm. There is nothing you can do to effect it. It is JUST a random number.
The problem lies with the user. As a general class, humans do NOT understand 'random'; which leads to posts as above. For those of us who do understand randomness, your posts actually verify that the randomness is, in fact, random.
Yeah, thanks for the patronizing reply. I know what random is. I am questioning the probability. Someone was always going to be dismissive of my query.When the probability drifts, I think it's worth questioning the programming, which is, at best pseudo-random, and can be easily twiddled.
So let's get a few numbers out there. From my current live cats and boxes (i.e excluding cats in the menagerie for which it would be harder for me to gather data):
Of the 8 Australian Mist Snows I have bred, all 8 are female ... that's a probability of 1 in 256. For as long as I do not produce a male snow, I'll be wondering.
Of the 30 cats I had bred (and kept) since 20th April, 25 are female. Before that, there was a more even distribution.
Not the worst streak in history, and of course the sample size is small, but you should be able to see why I am asking questions.
