Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Is the Coin Flip Really Fifty-Fifty?
You and I are going to settle something with a coin flip. Does your call matter?
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You and I are going to settle something with a coin flip. Does your call matter?
A coin flip on Friday decided who would become mayor of a south-central North Carolina city
In all these years, we have always believed that coin flipping is a fair and accurate method to decide, but there is a contradictory research finding on the other side of the coin. Yes, coin flipping may not be as accurate as you trust. Read on.
Kacie. do you have any advice for the president? [laughter] >> kacie: how much time do we have? to your point, i think when the sunday shows, the people who did a literal mental gymnastics to prove to us he was the hero we needed our flipping the coin. i think maybe it's sticking with the script and nebulous ice cream and sniffing and bike rides and the virtue signals. we are good, right? have a great weekend. kamala harris' flipping coins at college football games over the weekend. >> greg: that's true. what game was that? anybody watch that game? all i saw was the coin flipping. >> tyrus: it...
Discover it's an unfair coin. it's not actually coming up 50/50. so the question is, how many flips do you actually need before you get -- can reach a conclusion like that, a probablistic conclusion? and we could. there are standards, statistical tests for that, and the likelihood that this larger gap, you showed it on the first graph, in the setup piece, was happening purely by chance, like coin flipping on a fair coin that just didn't come up 50/50, was under 1%. >> all right. >> so that's good enough -- that was good enough for us. >> good enough to put it in t the -- for princeton. all rig...