746 Forum Posts by "stanni"
Ok so I'm sure many of you have seen Derren brown's "lottery number prediction trick" explanation on Friday. I also saw it and even though I am a big fan of his I believe the explanation he gave to how he did it was a lie and the real way he did it must have been camera trickery which would be very easy to pull off.
Ok so before I rant on about why I think his explanation is false lets first go over his method to predicting the lottery. basically he read about an old experiment that someone did a long time ago that involved someone creating a game to guess the weight of a cow or some other animal and who ever got it right would win it. In the end no one guessed the weight BUT the person did find out that if he worked out the average of everyones guesses he found the exact weight of the cow. This is known as "wisdom in crowds" or something like that.
Ok so next derren applied that to predicting the lottery. he took 24 people and got them to guess what would be the lottery numbers to the coming weeks lottery draw. He then took all the guesses and worked out the averages to each of the numbers. Tada! there you have it.
But here is the important part... why should this not work (according to me).
First off the experiment that was done all that time ago is actually plausible due to the fact that the people making the guesses can actually look at the cow to make and "educated" guess, educated being the key word there of course. But when you are guessing the lottery numbers you cannot take an educated guess due to the fact that its totally random.
That is just my opinion though, you may have your own though and I respect them so please don't flame me on that. I am not trying to ruin what derren has done in anyway I am still a big fan of his.
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UPDATE
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I ate the whole thing, yes the WHOLE thing and i've been sick twice already. Right now I feel like utter crap. >.>
At 5/10/09 02:18 PM, maggiemae wrote: A GIANT CHOCOLATE EGG?!?!?!?!?
this is madness!
where is this epic chocolate chicken that layed such a egg & where can i buy one.
It fell out your mum's bucket mate.
At 5/10/09 02:11 PM, alucardxmeow wrote: Is...Is that a giant chocolate easter egg?...
C-Can...Can I just....have a little taste of that?....
Eats entire egg.
No, cos it's in ma bellahhhhhhhhh!
At 5/10/09 02:00 PM, DM692 wrote: What was the pub doing giving away chocolate eggs so late?
No idea, maybe they were struck for prizzes :s
Just opened an epically big easter egg that parents won at pub quiz, its preaty tasty :3
Bit late for easter eggs but oh well.
...a KitKat that was all chocolate!
P.S. It was guuuuuurd
At 2/8/09 11:30 PM, Electric-Bla wrote:At 2/8/09 11:29 PM, OneLastCaress wrote: Oh well, I'm premature, so I came when I read the topic :)Did you Jizz in your pants?
OP totally didn't get me. <_< >_>
Omg, I love that song :3
Lololoololololol rofl sauce, you guys are so silly :P
Lol, I just did a bit of cookie editing guys :)
Its not photoshoped dudes, i really did.
At 1/18/09 05:07 PM, Senri wrote: If you're asking, you can't afford it.
How would you know?
How do you rent out space on NG to put your website adverts and how much does it cost?
The forums really bring the Newgrounds site down. There filled with so many immature people. It's as if people are trying to make others laugh by any means possible to gain "respect" but the truth is no one has any respect here.
Here, I'll do the math for you:
NG forums = full of immature kids.
Immature kids = epic fail.
At 8/5/08 10:23 PM, TwilightAscending wrote:At 8/5/08 10:22 PM, stanni wrote: Your girlfriend?hes a dude bro.
Are you a lesbian?
also no..... they arent good looking, rele
Oh right, just that he looks like a girl with the died hair, long hair and hair in a pony tail...
Your girlfriend?
Are you a lesbian?
Porn
Entertainment
Runescape
Online socialising
Gaming
Scripting/programming
lol changed your sig because you were afraid you will get flamed?
Flammed by people trying to look big infront of others by picking other peoples flaws? yea...
At 8/5/08 10:04 PM, killerjeff wrote:At 8/5/08 10:02 PM, NickDaPwner wrote:Runescape rulez!!11!!11!one
says the kid with runescape in his sig
Omg a NG runescape buddy :3
At 8/5/08 09:46 PM, Dmabster wrote:At 8/5/08 09:07 PM, stanni wrote:You= Biggest retard ever. That was a joke you moron, they are brothersAt 8/5/08 09:05 PM, gamerpeepinpa wrote: Yeah, they're married.Oh, I didn't realise Tom was gay.
Brothers? This even more messed up :s
No she's paid to rate porn movies.
Interesting -_________-
At 8/5/08 09:48 PM, Flash-King-700 wrote: Shut up assholes. I'm getting paid shitloads for this so HA! And I honestly don't care what parts I play. I'm the actor, I merely impersonating the character.
I bet your mum gets paid more to suck cock.
My PC, sry but I love to show this off :P
It's not just a crappy compaq though, I upgraded to 3gig of RAM and a 8800GT GPU :)
At 8/5/08 09:39 PM, Kaneda-X wrote:At 8/5/08 09:36 PM, stanni wrote: Lol, we just tricked this massivly fat kid that he could star in a slimming advert, what an idiot.Do you find yourself humorous? Because no one else does.
Lol quoted from you on previous thread:
"Canz I plz hast secks wit joo buttswhole noa?"
Do you find YOURSELF funny cos that was gay.
Lol, we just tricked this massivly fat kid that he could star in a slimming advert, what an idiot.
At 8/5/08 06:35 PM, LaughingTomato wrote: So you've been convicted of a crime and are sentenced to spend the rest of your life on an island. You can bring three things with you, what are they? You cant leave the island, as there is a navy destroyer guarding it. Also, your basic needs are taken care of for you.
Your mum and 2 sisters.
At 8/4/08 08:15 AM, AlexTomkins wrote:At 8/4/08 08:11 AM, DeIirium wrote: Incest alert!Did you not notice the word step? Means it's fine
I like your morals ;)
At 8/5/08 09:18 PM, NickDaPwner wrote: runescape sig, check
moron, check
naive, check
stereotypical Newgrounder right here
Says the kid with mum jokes on his userpage...
At 8/5/08 09:15 PM, string227 wrote: fail...
epic fail
Quoted from your mum when you fell outa her pussy.
