I taught Stat at Cal Poly during my university days, and indeed you get LOTS of false conclusions on these boards based on emotion instead of mathematical rigor. Funny at first, then tiring, then irritating - especially when coming from longtime members who should know better...

I'd hate to know how high kanosan's aggrivation level gets sometimes with all the noob du jours chiming in during a run of bad luck!

fun with statistics.
the chance of back to back cdfs of .9996
are about 1 of 4,000,000 but that did not happen here.
once upon a time years ago a pool did back to back .999 cdf and 6 of 10 cdfs above .92 and the 4 other ones were
all over .65 I stopped mining there.
I will come back here. When my 3 s-9s come next month.
my point is that the 6k price a coin makes the luck more painful.
and the chance of back to back cdf of .9996 is
4/10000 x 4/10000 = 6,250,000 but that did not happen here.
the math for this is much more under 10,000 to 1
the cdf for these 5 = 0.9868
53.387% 0.414
7.818% 0.075
875.193% 1.000 this is not a cdf of 1.000 it is more like 0.9996
71.017% 0.508
112.683% 0.676
so the bottom 112.683% 0.676 drops out
replaced by 810+% .999 cdf
which will bring our 5 block worse then .99 far under 1,000,000 to one
every 500 blocks we should have a terrible 5 block streak.
but at 6000 x 13 = 78,000 a block it is painful
And to any and all statistical professor's
the math is this.
if you start right after the devil block here.
the chance of back to back cdf's of .9996 is 6,250,000 to 1
that is correct and I will stand by it.
I used 2000 to 1 x 2000 to 1 = 4,000,000 because . we are not a cdf of 1.000 we are .9995000000001 or higher
and rounded up to 1.000
My emotion is simple enough for me. we are nowhere near the 4,000,000 or 6,250,000 to one.
the last 5 blocks once this is over will have us over a cdf of .99 not a big deal
I am more concerned about the August then September and now October.