The paper shows some significant evidence that human coin flips are not as fair as I would have expected (plus probably a bunch of people). There’s always some probability that this happened by chance, but this is pretty low.
Of course, we should be able to build a really accurate coin flipping machine, but I never would have expected such a bias for human flippers.
This is why science is awesome and challenging your ideas is important.
PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My favorite part is this:
wmassingham@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Funding: my mom gave me the coins out of her car cupholder”
PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I, too, was a poor grad student.
At that time I don’t have a child to suck the life out of me. Just a dissertation.
(My hypothesis is that the child is worse, but my wife won’t let me conduct double blind, placebo controlled studies)
PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s just bizarre how high quality this evidence is. It’s probably because it’s so cheap to collect this data, and other science nerds are also science geeks like me.
Actually video of this many tests. Just data orgasm.
here
CanofBeanz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
with their spare change