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Science of the coin-toss: Bias in Heads-or-Tails

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the didn't-gildenstern-prove-that-already dept.

MrSharkey writes " An interesting article published in Science News puts a new scientific spin on the outcome of the venerable coin-toss. "A new mathematical analysis suggests that coin tossing is inherently biased: A coin is more likely to land on the same face it started out on.""

2 of 559 comments (clear)

  1. Old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Welcome to last week!

  2. taoism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    no shit sherlock, its a reaction to an action, of course your result is influenced by your starting position.

    though no result is a given, the conditions are.