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Re:What I Learned from Losing $200M (2015) by kinkrtyavimoodh on Thursday November 02, 2017 @07:48PM (#15615442)
Even if the class had 200 students the winner didn't need to flip 200 in a row. On average, half the students of the class would get Heads in each iteration, which means that this experiment would go on only for lg(200) iterations, which is only 7. Flipping 7 Heads in a row is not all that difficult to imagine.
Re:What I Learned from Losing $200M (2015) by yters on Thursday November 02, 2017 @09:15PM (#15615970)
My point is large enough amounts of success cannot be attributed to survivorship bias.