Basically he is giving you info on how to interpret the result you got. A t-test (Student's t-test) gives a "p-value" which sometimes comes up in some articles regarding a statistical result. It is a way of assessing whether the result you got is different enough from the expected value (a fair die) taking into account that you can't throw the dice an infinite amount of times. Generally a p-value less than 0.05 is considered statistically significant* and you can trust your result.

You can do the calculation here too if you want to get some values about it and more info.

*) Sort of means that there is only a 5% probability that your result is due to randomness.

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This assumed you only tested one die.

If OP tested a thousand dice, and this is the one that came out on the bottom, then it's incredibly likely it's just random because of how many dice were tested.

MULTIPLE COMPARISON CHANGES THE RULES OF STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS TESTING, and the OP is giving us a single result from multiple comparisons which are censored.

Probably an innocent mistake, but not valid.

[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

With one die we can calculate the probability of getting that result and compare it to a distribution of fair dice, that gives us a probability of 0.24% that the average of 100 rolls of a 20 sided fair die is 8.88 or lower.

Knowing op rolled 17 dice (17 sets of 100) we can calculate the probability of that even happening with fair dice to be around 4% meaning very likely that die is unfair.

At least this is how i think this goes

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

I gave the tool a test using the data on the rolls I mentioned in the previous comment (under the spoiler tag) and it said "very statistically significant"

Definitely worth looking more into it IMO

Time to gather more data!