Talk:Mesa (Warframe)/@comment-210.187.147.68-20151020134905/@comment-192.76.8.27-20151107232630

ok i really don't have time for statistics 101 but basically no. you would expect the kind of swingy, unpredictable rates from truly random generation. randomness produces statistical clusters and what appear to be local aberrations.

Probability is only meaningful when you have infinite attempts. What "7.5%" means is literally that if you did infinite attempts, 7.5 out of 100 would be successful. Trying to conclude about individual attempts from the distribution or vice versa - eg"it is 7.5% and I did 1000 runs and got no Systems, therefore it is not random" - is known as the Ecological Fallacy, and is not a valid logical relationship.