Quiz · Game · 8 minute

Wheel-bias detective

A log a 3,000 spin fram a wheel weh maybe bias, maybe no. Use di Lab tool dem fi find di hot sector, or seh di wheel fair.

Short ansa

Five wheel, five verdict. A heat map, a bar chart wid di ±2σ band an a chi-square testlabChi-square testStatistical test weh compare di hit dem yuh see inna evry pocket wid di n/37 yuh fi expec. Dem use it fi judge if a wheel bias.Read di whole ting → deh pon di table; yuh can get a sector scan as a hint, but it cost yuh a point. One a di wheel dem fair.

wheel
5
spin each
3,000
top score
10
fair wheel
1

Wheel 1 outta 5 · 3,000 spin

click a pocket fi accuse it
0321519421225173462713361130823105241633120143192218297281235326
spin3,000
expected fi evry pocket81.1 · σ 8.9
pocket weh hot di most26 · 155 hit · 8.3σ
chi-square · p197.6 · < 0.001
E0pocket inna wheel order fram 0 · hit

Score

9–10: Jagger woulda waan yuh fi watch di wheel.

6–8: yuh can read a heat map an yuh nuh fall fi a false positive.

3–5: yuh find di strong one dem; di subtle bias an di fair wheel a di real test.

Unda 3: read “Ow fi find bias inna a roulette wheel” an “Ow big di sample size fi be”. Tree thousand spin barely enough fi a strong bias, an it nuh enough fi a subtle one.

Wah mek it hard

Pon a fair wheel wid 3,000 spin, di expected count fi each pocketgearPocketOne a di 37 compartment wid numba pon di rotor. Nex name: slot, cup.Read di whole ting → a 81 an di standard deviationmathsStandard deviationDi square root a variance; ow far a result usually deh fram di expected value.Read di whole ting → a bout 9, suh a few pocket wi siddung outside di ±2σ band jus by chance. A bias pocket at +40% sit roun 113, bout 3.5σ; at +20% it deh roun 97, unda 2σ, an yuh cyaan see it inna one pocket. Sector dempon di wheelSectorA piece a di wheel weh di pocket dem follow one anodda roun di arc, nuh a group pon di betting layout.Read di whole ting → add up: di 5-pocket scan a ow di real bias playa dem did find wheel, cause pocket weh side by side share di same mechanical fault.

Question dem

Wah mek one wheel fair?

Cause di hardest skill inna bias play a nuh fi find a hot sector; a fi nuh find one weh nuh deh deh.

Ow much spin yuh woulda really need?

Thousands fi a strong bias; tens a thousands fi a subtle one. Jagger family did watch di wheel dem fi weeks.

Sumting fi laugh

Find di sector. Or admit seh none nuh deh deh.

Find di sector. Or admit seh none nuh deh deh.

Source dem

  1. Barnhart, R. T. Beating the Wheel. Lyle Stuart, 1992.
  2. Pearson, K. “On the criterion that a given system of deviations from the probable…” Philosophical Magazine 50(302), 1900.
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