Posted May 08, 2011
eyeball226: Snip...
...Well, if the roles are randomly allocated then not having been mafia before doesn't make you more likely to be mafia this time. That's like thinking you're more likely to win the lottery the longer you play the same numbers.
If you subscribe to the Pure Random theory, it should still be 9.1% ...Well, if the roles are randomly allocated then not having been mafia before doesn't make you more likely to be mafia this time. That's like thinking you're more likely to win the lottery the longer you play the same numbers.
However, there are other models that suggest a non-recursive scheme, which would give a number closer to 31.8% & still others that land in between.