How well to humans know random?

I thought an interesting thing to test would be to see how good people are at generating random numbers. I will have people post random number sequences of 0's and 1's here and I will analyse the results to look for any biases.

Here are the rules. If not followed your post will not be counted.

1) 100 random 0's or 1's (no more no less)
2) The chance of choosing a 0 should be 0.5 and the chance of chosing a 1 should be 0.5. This does not mean you will have 50 0's and 50 1's it means that on average people will have 50/50. Some will have more some will have less.
3) No random number generators.
4) Don't try too hard.

Example: (make rows of 10 so its easier to count)

1001010111
0010110111
0101011010
0001011101
1111010100

0101001010
1010010100
1101110101
0100101110
1010010110
 
1111111111
1111111111
1111111111
1111111111
1111111111

0000000000
0000000000
0000000000
0000000000
0000000000


Is the human random?
 
Quote from n00b7r4d3r:

I thought an interesting thing to test would be to see how good people are at generating random numbers.

If your brain truly works randomly, you would end up in a place where I spent 3 years of my precious adult life: a mental hospital.


Oh, if you live in Toronto (lots of ETers are from Canada, I noticed), you may be able to help a guy by answering the following question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070306142358AABJV5H
 
Quote from robbie380:

is there any point to this?

Revealing biases in human decision making which can suggest possible heuristics for financial market inefficiency mining.
 
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