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Poisson Effect

PostPosted: Tuesday, 19th November 2013, 16:52
by rebthor
Why aren't there more fish in the shoals. I would expect a relatively even distribution independent of other encounters with fish. Instead it's angry turtles and some sort of weird half-fish men and women.

Speaking of which, why are merfolk "m" and not "H"? All the other beast-men are "H" so it's pretty clear there is a coordinated dev response against fish. "H"aters gonna hate the Mf.

Re: Poisson Effect

PostPosted: Tuesday, 19th November 2013, 17:14
by Confidence Interval
For a sufficiently large n, the Poisson distribution closely approximates the normal. Given that there are plenty more fish in the sea I would say that your observation is in line with what we would expect.

Re: Poisson Effect

PostPosted: Wednesday, 20th November 2013, 10:15
by Grimm
her poison fish
is on your dish

Re: Poisson Effect

PostPosted: Wednesday, 20th November 2013, 10:31
by Confidence Interval

Re: Poisson Effect

PostPosted: Wednesday, 20th November 2013, 14:02
by rebthor
When I'm in Shoals, I listen to dubstep so I can drop the bass.

Re: Poisson Effect

PostPosted: Wednesday, 20th November 2013, 18:54
by Grimm
The nut shot at the end of that is choice.

Re: Poisson Effect

PostPosted: Thursday, 21st November 2013, 02:40
by HenryFlower
Best multilingual multidiscipline pun evar....

Re: Poisson Effect

PostPosted: Thursday, 21st November 2013, 20:13
by Grimm
Confidence Interval wrote:Fug u.

No, Fug you.

Re: Poisson Effect

PostPosted: Thursday, 21st November 2013, 20:54
by Confidence Interval
I always liked their 'CIA Man'.

Re: Poisson Effect

PostPosted: Thursday, 21st November 2013, 20:58
by Grimm
Yeah, that's the popular hit. Always relevant too.

I like that video because it shows how much things have changed. A guy running around Manhattan with an assault rifle today would likely be shot within fifteen minutes. In the vid, everyone is just laughing.

Re: Poisson Effect

PostPosted: Friday, 22nd November 2013, 04:25
by HenryFlower
rebthor wrote:Why aren't there more fish in the shoals. I would expect a relatively even distribution independent of other encounters with fish.


When I apply Fisher's Exact Test, I see that the pipi value shows no difference in Lair ponds vs Shoals. If there were Bayes in the Shoals, I might be able to assess the Big Fish posteriors.

Re: Poisson Effect

PostPosted: Sunday, 24th November 2013, 00:08
by Psiweapon
Being polymorphed into some sort of fish could be a perfectly legitimate effect if standing on water.

Re: Poisson Effect

PostPosted: Sunday, 24th November 2013, 00:37
by 1010011010
The shoals are native merfolk territory, fish are in safe areas. The real question is why delicious snapper turtles are there.

Re: Poisson Effect

PostPosted: Tuesday, 26th November 2013, 10:11
by Confidence Interval
1010011010 wrote:why delicious snapper turtles are there.

So you can kill them and eat the chunks, of course.