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Re:Fair coins tend to land on the side they started: Evidenc... by halgir on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @02:55PM (#42187418)
If you programmed a machine to flip a coin in the same exact way every time, would you not expect the coin to land the same way every single time? If you program some randomness into the machine to simulate human flipping, then you'd simply move scrutiny from the coin to the machine's programming.

I think the result could be better described as "humans tend to flip fair coins to land on the side they started".

Re:Fair coins tend to land on the side they started: Evidenc... by saagarjha on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @07:46PM (#42189700)
One would expect chaos effects to come into play.
Re:Fair coins tend to land on the side they started: Evidenc... by oefnak on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @01:28AM (#42191282)
One might, but that would be wrong.