Viliam_Bur comments on Rationality Quotes August 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 25 August 2013 06:15:36PM 1 point [-]

Why is this quote upvoted?

Maybe because of this part:

Players [...] equated lots of dice rolling with the game being "more random" even though that contradicts the actual math.

Comment author: duckduckMOO 27 September 2013 03:49:49PM *  1 point [-]

Rolling 10 dice instead of one makes the game less random. Rolling dice often instead of rarely makes the game more random. This game rolls dice for every attack and not that many. The dude said people complained about lots of dice rolling, not rolling lots of dice. Yeah, obviously if you roll 10 dice its less random than rolling one but what are the chances card game enthusiasts: people "geeky" enough to play star wars TCG don't understand that basic part of probability? It's far more likely that people were annoyed at lots of dice rolling, not the amount of dice you roll each time. Which matches the reported complaints of the players. Not that I'd expect an accurate report of the players positions when making excuses for why rolling dice in a card game is a bad idea.