yeah that’s over a one in a billion chance to get all heads in just a million tries.
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ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 2 days agoif you get a million people to flip a coin 50 times. Some of them will get all 50 to be heads.
Flipping a coin 50 times has 1.1 quadrillion possible outcomes, only 2 of which are all heads or all tails. I think you’d need more than a few billion to reliably see those results.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think though, you get the point.
Now here is a bonus question for you. If I give you a coin and ask you to flip it 20 times, and they all come up heads. What are the odds that if you flip it again it will come up heads?
wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I think it’s higher than a 50% chance of heads, because you have evidence for it being an unfair coin.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nice that is in fact what I was going to say. I get a lot of people with that joke.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’m trying to be more Bayesian in life, but it’s a difficult lifestyle change!