'random' v/s 'equally distributed'...

I do this all the time…mistaking ‘random’ with ‘equally distributed'.

 

For instance, if you ask someone to select 5 ‘random’ people in a room..they will choose one/two from the middle..one from the front..one from the back..and the last one from some area of the room un-noticed yet.

They will also make the sex distribution as equal as possible…regardless of the proportion of males/females present in the room.

 

This is not being ‘random’, but actually being ‘equally distributed’.

 

Btw, can humans generate ‘random’ events?

 

I think..it’s impossible to come up with a random sequence just by pulling it out of your head. We can’t help stop thinking..