Wednesday, 19 August 2009

Coin Tosses Are Not 50/50

Hey again, I'm trying to get back into the topic of money and things related to money and I came across this fact on coin tosses, so I thought I would do a quick blog on it for y'all to read.
"A flipped coin will land in the same position it started 51 percent of the time."
In a paper titled "Dynamical Bias in the Coin Toss," three American-based professors from Stanford University argued that the flight of a coin flip is "determined by its initial condition." Specifically, it is slightly more likely to end up heads if it starts heads and vice versa.
Using principles of physics and math the researchers were even able to build a coin-flipping machine that could produce heads every time; although when a human in a non-fixed environment does the tossing, it's a 51/49 split
So there you go, next time your in a coin toss and get asked Heads or Tails, just go with whatever the coin starts off as. The odds are in your favor that way, well by a whole 1% anyway.
Thanks For Reading !
Iain Geddes
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