{"id":11153,"date":"2020-12-23T13:29:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T13:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/dream-hires-harvard-astrophysicist-to-disprove-minecraft-cheating-accusations"},"modified":"2024-07-19T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T12:05:02","slug":"dream-hires-harvard-astrophysicist-to-disprove-minecraft-cheating-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/minecraft\/dream-hires-harvard-astrophysicist-to-disprove-minecraft-cheating-accusations","title":{"rendered":"Dream hires Harvard astrophysicist to disprove Minecraft cheating accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Popular Minecraft speedrunner Dream has released a lengthy video as a response to cheating accusations<\/a> brought in regards to one of his runs.<\/p>\n

For the purpose of this response, Dream has hired a statistical expert with a PhD from Harvard who is a practising astrophysicist.<\/p>\n

The document, called Dream Minecraft Report<\/a>, is 19 pages long and according to Dream, it should prove that the 1 in 7.5 trillion odds, shown by the Speedrun Mod team, are completely wrong, and it provides a step by step explanation of what the mods did wrong.<\/p>\n

The document concludes that “the data show no statistically significant evidence that Dream was modifying the probabilities, given that he was investigated after it was noticed that he was lucky.”<\/p>\n

In the video, Dream explains that the math was off by “at least 7.49999 trillion”, referring to 1 in 7.5 trillion odds presented by the Mod team.<\/p>\n

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In the response video, Dream uses a seemingly endless field of blocks to visualise just how wrong the Mod team was (Picture: Dream)<\/span><\/p>\n

You can read the lengthy document provided above or watch Dream’s response video for more details, but basically, Dream’s (and his hired expert’s) main point is that the YouTuber’s run was only investigated because he got lucky. <\/p>\n

“Extremely low probability events happen all the time,” the document states, with a purpose of showing that perfect runs are probably happening “multiple times per hour”, and considering the number of players that are playing Minecraft, “even 1 in a trillion events happen daily.”<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the document provides a rather complex statistical analysis in order to prove that the mod team did not correctly account for several factors in regards to trades with Piglins, which supposedly shows that Dream’s odds were “extremely more likely”.<\/p>\n

Dream’s document further claims that the mod team used completely random numbers while presenting them like “the best possible numbers in Dream’s favour”, while they were actually far from it and often “the worst possible numbers.”<\/p>\n