Originally posted by TOC:
Two lamps lit up in a totally random pattern, but the humans hadn't been told that it was random.....
....But there was no pattern. Trying to make out a pattern meant that the humans got, at best, a score of 65%....
...The mice, however, quickly figured out that it was the lamp on the right that lit up most frequently,....
...The lamp on the right lit up 80% of the time...
Are you listening to yourself? You just said the mice quickly caught on to the pattern! The pattern being that the lamp on the right lit up 80% of the time.
So rather than being random there was a pattern just not a predictable
sequence.
