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Posted By pumpthejam4478 9 months ago in Science & TechnologyWe are all grown to believe that flipping a coin in the air will result in 50% chance of getting “heads” or “tails”.Coin toss became the standard example of a random event in probability courses, but a study on the Dynamical Bias in the Coin Toss proved otherwise.
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lfergie8129 months ago
Hey Wolfie, it just sounds like your older brother was smarter than you were. 7 out of 10 is not in the range of the odds so he would have been using another trick.
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Wolfie20079 months ago
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We are all grown to believe that flipping a coin in the air will result in 50% chance of getting “heads” or “tails”. Coin toss became the standard example of a random event in probability courses, but a study by Persi Diaconis, Susan Holmes, and Richard Montgomery on the Dynamical Bias in the Coin Toss proved otherwise. Turns out that the chance of a coin falling on the same side it started on is 0.51, and, respectively, there’s a 0.49 chance that it will fall on the other side. At first this difference might seem insignificant, but in the long run this kind of differences is what makes gamblers lose a lot of money to casinos. The full article is available here, and even though extensive knowledge of physics is required to fully comprehend it, there's still something satisfying in riffling through the pages in an attempt to understand the models, vectors and the long formulas. -
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totalskeptic8 months, 4 weeks ago
An excellent reason to start soccer games by playing rock, paper, scissors to decide who get to play first.
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