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usaphp on July 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep gi...

> gives a dollar to one randomly chosen other person

I wonder is the person randomly chosen by the machine or is it randomly chosen by the person who gives away the dollar? If it's the second case - I wonder how much does personal attraction matters here. Unconsciously you would want to give something to a person who you find more attractive...

wungsten on July 9, 2017 | [–]

I'd like to see you try programming a simulation with that in mind :)

PhasmaFelis on July 10, 2017 | [–]

If the giver is allowed to choose, it's not random, by definition. You'd need a computer or some other reasonably good randomizer, like dice.

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