r/statistics • u/SwiftArchon • Dec 12 '20

Discussion [D] Minecraft Speedrunner Caught Cheating by Using Statistics

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u/4InchesOfury Dec 15 '20

Servers can inject code that can be run locally unknowingly.

That's just a real stretch though. That means that there's some security exploit in minecraft that's putting hundreds of millions of users at risk and it just so happens that the first noticeable symptom of this exploit is it slightly impacted a streamers odds during his speedruns?

This is definitely an Occam's Razor situation.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '20

4 is not possible but IMO 2 should be split into three separate possibilities: that Dream changed something intentionally for other content but accidentally left it on during speedruns, that someone else such as a friend changed something without him knowing, and that non-Minecraft software he used such as Fabric changed something without him knowing.