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 would agree with me). 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.

Edit: hopefully this is not too wrong a place, but Lemmy is small, and I didn’t know where else I could share such an exciting finding.

  • Jessica
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    372 years ago

    The illusion of a coin flipping in the air allows those that have mastered the act to get near 100% precision.

    • @Veltoss@lemmy.world
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      52 years ago

      Crazy how simple and obvious that seems after you see it, but I never would have suspected it if someone did it right in front of me.

      • Jessica
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        12 years ago

        I tried for a few minutes, before my son got bored and wanted to move on 😜. If you do learn it, let us know!