Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35284508-20181120174212/@comment-35284508-20190222191610

109.64.103.41 wrote: Can you check if it’s related to purchases in the store? I could but I have only one observation - me. If we get 20 people with different spending habits (how do we quantify that?) To do 20,000 observations each (so we can be sure to be within 5% of reality) we will have ... wait for it, drum roll... 20 observations. We could of course test extremes, predicting that spending $0 is one end and spending $10,000 is the other, postulating that the high purchase gets MT's attention and guarantees a drop every time (maybe we should go to $100,000 just in case) then all we have to do is have the low end player play until they get a drop and the high end player play until they dont get a drop to prove the question wrong. I have already spent $, so I cant be the low end but if you donate the high end sum I will gladly recruit or create the low end act to test this. In the name of science you understand.

Yes, I am being tongue-in-cheek snide. This entire series is about #1, how many observations it requires to prove any difference in drop rate and #2 you have to get the conditions of the test nailed down BEFORE you collect results. Enjoy you experiment in stats but dont ask me to spend wads of money to run trials that dont prove anything.