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Re:350,757 coin flips show coins tend to land the same-side ... by pmontra on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:00AM (#37832213)
That's how it went when I was solving problems at the Statistics course at university. I modeled the problem perfectly, got the wrong result. Changed assumptions, got the wrong result. Checked the solution, its reasoning didn't make much sense anyway. Run a simulation, got an approximate result close to the correct solution.
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Re:350,757 coin flips show coins tend to land the same-side ... by dotancohen on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @01:04PM (#37834652)
This sounds like the classic "tweak the model until the results fit with our preexisting conclusion". Very common across all industries unfortunately.
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Re:350,757 coin flips show coins tend to land the same-side ... by zh3 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:27PM (#37835646)
Also known in a derogatory fashion [0] as "adding epicycles" (after the Ptolemaic view of the heavens).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle#Bad_scie...

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