Comment on "Fair" coin flips appear to not be all that fair
treefrog@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I remember it feeling this way as a kid. That coins tend to land on the same side they start on.
I remember the opposite, i.e. because heads always felt like "right way up" to us, and it was almost always tails. To the extent that it still feels like the heads/tails percentage is the only positive version of the 50-50-90 rule, and I will never choose anything else.
Wonder if the people in my family are wobblier than others.
I’m with you, i used to try influence what i wanted by catching it.
If i wanted what i had flipped from i caught it palm up and then revealed. If i wanted the opposite i caught it and then revealed it onto my other hand.
As i got older i wouldn’t let people catch the coin only let it hit the ground and bounce around.
PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No! Bad treefrog.
If it “feels like” something, you’re probably fooling yourself.
Hard evidence. The easiest person to fool is yourself.
treefrog@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I read the beginning of the article. It confirmed my gut feeling. But I certainly didn’t run 300k coin flips to check lol
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Jokes on me! I doubt most of my decisions and the logic that lead up to them!
Evidenced based research ftw, though.
PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you’re still young, careful about too much imposter syndrome.
It took me until some reasonably extreme events for me to acknowledge that I was smart.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I’m being a bit facetious. It took me quite a while, and with the help of my best friend, to realize I am smart. I don’t like to say that sort of thing. I am smart when it comes to the things that I know well, but am clueless on so much else.
ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
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