Can something truly be “totally rando”?

This video has been categorized for: 7th grade • Math • Data & Statistics • Probability of events on PS101.

What if things like the results of a coin toss, the chances of you guessing the color of the next car that drove by, the fact that your ex-boyfriend showed up at your birthday party, or even a randomly generated number from a computer program weren’t really random at all?

Sure all these things are improbable or extremely difficult to determine but they’re not truly random in the sense that they are not:

governed by or involving equal chances for each item

It turns out that, when we’re predicting or analyzing most scenarios, there are factors likely at play to skew equality in favor of one outcome over another.

Here’s one of our favorite YouTube teachers, VSauce, with a video to help us answer, “What is random?”

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