Contrary to natural randomness, man-induced uncertainties may be reduced by collecting more information or by improving the mathematical model.
Then came that "certain randomness," and the man who flew bomber planes in World War II, Korea and had two tours in Vietnam — one of them after Sandy Alderson had served there — was struck down taking a walk.
Where else in life can you see a test that simply gauges the better man, all randomness due to wind, rain, the bounce of a ball, performance of teammates or the subjectivity of judges taken out of the equation?
aleatory or natural uncertainties or randomness and, epistemic or man-induced or technological uncertainties.
A distinction should be made between (1) aleatory or natural uncertainties or randomness and, (2) epistemic or man-induced or technological uncertainties. .
Chatroulette's combination of randomness, anonymity, and video was irresistible to men who were dying to shed their pants — and they were driving other people away.
In the increasingly ugly battle over abortion rights, the Salvi killings were notably shocking, not only because of their seeming randomness but because the killer was a young man with loving parents and no history of criminal violence.
We humans do hate randomness, don't we?
Randomness for its own sake is just, well, random.
"The Lottery" takes the classic theme of man's inhumanity to man and gives it an additional twist: the randomness inherent in brutality.
Randomness is part of the point (the book has its resemblances to Luke Rhinehart's The Dice Man), but the characters they meet are somehow insufficiently deserving.
