First it told you what you didn't want to hear. Then you "convinced it", and now you're using its output as proof of something.
Actually, that’s not how it went down at all. I asked it what drove the change from bridge to poker sized. It gave me some standard “let me scan a few popular websites” answer. I then proceeded not to “convince” it, but asked it to list the factors which went into this decision, and to analyze them one by one. Pretty quickly it arrived at a pretty nuanced answer.
Anyone who uses A.I. for anything but rote questions should know that you get better results if you probe, and choose prompts and queries which challenge the bot to look deeper, to reconsider assumptions, etc.
This is a standard piece of advice you get from professionals with expertise in A.I.
BTW many of the first-pass answers were pretty much cut-and-pastes from posts on this site, LOL.
Autocorrelation out the ass. It's reporting metrics and bolding things and telling you you're great, while those tests are not helpful. Boil down its arguments:
-It reports that how the dealer throws it matters: duh.
-It reports the playing surface matters: duh.
- It reports that the cards cupping/bowing is the main culprit in whether a card flips? No shit, I have been railing against KEMs for years and I did that before I finished Calc 4. Lived experience trumps an AI's report of something it has never done, and any engineer worth their salt will tell you the same.
So you agree with its main findings: That the size is less important than other factors.
If something is preferred there is a reason more than just gossip.
Do you believe this is true in all things?
Burger King is more popular than the nearest restaurant with organic, home-cooked meals in my town. Ergo, I should always eat at Burger King. Right?
Likewise, without bringing any particular politics into this, it is sometimes the case that the winning candidate in any election is not in fact the best candidate. Sometimes the winner is just the incumbent, or the person who spent more on ads, or the person with the more catchy rhetoric. Again, not taking sides... Everyone can pick their favorite example based on their own ideology.
P.S. The bot did not “tell me I’m great.” It didn't even know what my beliefs were on this. BTW there are recommended prompts to specifically instruct an LLM to not sugarcoat their responses. Sometimes you can choose this a preference across all chats.
It's not my job to make sure my measured values match a model, it is instead my job to find the cavitation causing the difference and attempt to model the real world experience. Yes, we can calculate angular velocity, viscosity of the air around the card, the humidity and friction coefficients, but the point is its not helpful to the discussion; you dismiss n=X card dealers because you say they must not be analyzing why they prefer a card, when in reality that preference is built up from hours pitching cards. The source you're citing does not know how a card feels.
Once again, we are discussing what is best for home games, not casinos, which are unlikely to ever go back for reasons unrelated to actual ergonomics or usability. And no, I have not polled professional dealers on the topic, and have only heard very anecdotal evidence about their general preferences. My guess is that 99.5% of dealers could shuffle and pitch either size for hours just fine.
Anyway, is there some claim that the shift from poker to bridge size in casino poker rooms was due to an uprising among poker room dealers? Cite sources. I doubt any exist, but I’m all ears.
Back on topic:
Many if not most home games do not have professional dealers. I do know the guy who deals my games prefers poker-sized decks, and uses them in his own game. But if I insisted on bridge size he would not care, despite being a rather tall guy with bigger than average hands.
ChatGPT outputs in this thread are like a freshman research report, they found a function they like but can't explain the graph. I would be much nicer about this on Page 1, but by Page 8 I'm pretty sick of this. This is what I have to deal with, undergraduates arguing with my grading because ChatGPT told them they're a special boy and they should consider -insert fluid mechanics theory that has too many assumptions here-.
I only gave a few short summaries, but invited anyone to request the full chat if they want to see the far more elaborate and science-based answers provided. You prefer to skim the very short bullet lists before drawing a conclusion. That’s on you not on the LLM.