A comparative evaluation of measures to assess randomness in human-generated sequences.

ABSTRACT: Whether and how well people can behave randomly is of interest in many areas of psychological research. The ability to generate randomness is often investigated using random number generation (RNG) tasks, in which participants are asked to generate a sequence of numbers that is as random as possible. However, there is no consensus on how best to quantify the randomness of responses in human-generated sequences. Traditionally, psychologists have used measures of randomness that directly assess specific features of human behavior in RNG tasks, such as the tendency to avoid repetition or to systematically generate numbers that have not been generated in the recent choice history, a behavior known as cycling. Other disciplines have proposed measures of randomness that are based on a more rigor

SUBMITTER: Angelike T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11362514 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature