Coin flips, long thought to have exact 50/50 odds, are in fact weighted slightly towards one outcome, according to a new study by European researchers released this week.
In this Saturday, May 2, 2020, photo, rupiah coins are seen inside a donation box for animals at Medan Zoo which is affected by the new coronavirus outbreak at a collection point n Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. It has been …Coin flips, long thought to have exact 50/50 odds, are, in fact, weighted slightly towards one outcome, according to a new study by European researchers released this week.
Out of the 350,757 flips in the new European study, 178,078 landed on the side that faced up at the start, for 50.8% percent of the flips, proving that the coin flip is not exactly an even proposition. The European researchers aimed to test the counterintuitive results of the first study, which had a much smaller sample size.
The European researchers concluded that their data provided strong evidence that “when some people flip a fair coin, it tends to land on the same side it started,” vindicating the American study.
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