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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ichabod" data-source="post: 1020048" data-attributes="member: 1257">Okay, here's what you do.  Put all the numbers into excel. Type into one cell "=stdev(a1:a179)" (a1:a179 is the range your rolls are in, adjust this if they are in a different range). That gives you the standard deviation of your dice rolls. Take  the mean of your die rolls (which can be calculated with "=average(a1:a179)") and subtract it from 10.5. Then multiply the result by the square root of the number of die rolls, and divide it by the standard deviation you calculated. If the number you get is less than 2, you don't have bad luck. If it is greater than 2.3, you can't confidently say that you don't have bad luck. Note that that is different than saying that you do have bad luck. If it's inbetween 2 and 2.3, it will depend on which statisticians you talk to.A major caveat: as has been stated, if you are using the same die the whole time, you are confounding your results. The deviation from the mean may be due to the die you are using, and not your phenomenoscopic transprobability curve warping field. For the best results, use different dice from different manufacturers.Also, the more you roll the dice, the more you are sure of the result. I'd wait until about 400 rolls before complaining too much about your bad luck. And remember, this will never tell you that you have bad luck. The best it will do, in classical statistics terminology, is fail to reject the hypothesis that your luck is normal.</blockquote>

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