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random process

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random process [′ran·dəm ′prä·səs]
(mathematics)


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Offering an analysis of various job positions and career-oriented implications, Men At Work will help women assessing prospective men, picking apart and excluding the unworthy and unworkable, thereby avoiding the heart-breaking process of blind chance in figuring out certain the pros and cons of certain male "breeds" through a random process of hit and miss.
Random assignment occurs when investigators use a random process like the toss of a coin to decide which participants are assigned to an "experimental" group (which gets the intervention) and which are assigned to a "control" group (which does not).
Additionally, "people expect that a sequence of events generated by a random process will represent the essential characteristics of that process even when the sequence is short" (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974, p.
 
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