Some people reject the notion of randomness on religious or philosophical grounds. They do not accept the idea that events in our world can occur randomly. Whether or not you share this belief, you can still have fun trying to act randomly in this exercise.
Freedom implies some capriciousness or haphazardness.
Because the behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner believed that our behavior was totally determinedby our past history, genetic endowments, and current forces, he denied the possibility of free will, or even freedom. Statistical definitions, which we will use in this exercise, involve the inability to predict outcomes or to find any pattern in a series of outcomes. Or they might mean that the causes can never be fully specified. The implication here is that all events are deterministically caused, but our knowledge of the causes will always be incomplete, making them act as if they were randomly determined. The only way scientists can prove causation is to rule out the possibility that a potential cause and an effect are associated by chance or randomness.