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Re:40k coin tosses yield ambiguous evidence for dynamical bias by paxys on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:08PM (#31610959)
If you can pay off a referee then the coin toss would be the least effective way to do it. A single bad call would gain you a much bigger advantage.
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Re:40k coin tosses yield ambiguous evidence for dynamical bias by dTal on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:33PM (#31611274)
It has far more plausible deniability, however.
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Re:40k coin tosses yield ambiguous evidence for dynamical bias by bluGill on Friday June 03, 2022 @04:17PM (#31613123)
Maybe. It only takes one bad call at the right time to throw a game. If the ref is consistently bad and missing call for both sides what is one more bad call?

I don't care much about bad refs so long as they are consistently bad. However a perfect ref who missing one critical call is a lot more suspicious. Of course I prefer a great ref, but I can work with a fairly bad ref.

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