The paper shows some significant evidence that human coin flips are not as fair as I would have expected (plus probably a bunch of people would agree with me). There’s always some probability that this happened by chance, but this is pretty low.

Of course, we should be able to build a really accurate coin flipping machine, but I never would have expected such a bias for human flippers.

This is why science is awesome and challenging your ideas is important.

Edit: hopefully this is not too wrong a place, but Lemmy is small, and I didn’t know where else I could share such an exciting finding.

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    I’m curious why you don’t think this is significant?

    This is a pretty high house edge (or whatever you want to call it) for a game that seems the most fair as possible.

    No casino games are that fair.

    As is discussed elsewhere in this thread, you could probably practice and get that higher.

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      Where are coins flipped multiple times in order to gain such value from doing so? I can only think of 2up being played in Australia, 1 day per year and they don’t flick it with their thumb, so…

      Where is the “house” gaining so much?

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        You can bet on dice and coin flips.

        “I bet you a dollar that my coin flip will come up heads?”

        This research suggests that this is not only profitable, but can be improved upon.

        Edit: so weird. Why would such a simple and correct statement be controversial? I would’ve thought that betting on heads or tails was not this far out of fair coin odds.