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.

  • Pregnenolone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    1 year ago

    Humans inherently create patterns and routine in their actions. It’s why on roulette wheels they change the direction and the size of the ball regularly to prevent the spinners from pattern spinning.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      They don’t all inherently choose to make it land on the up facing side. In fact, I believe this study is not even true. I call shenanigans.

      • there1snospoon@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        I look forward to your article explaining how you used the scientific method to provide counter evidence to their study.