Not sure I actually believe this. But,
here you go.
"What he and his fellow researchers discovered (here’s a PDF of their paper) is that most games of chance involving coins aren’t as even as you’d think. For example, even the 50/50 coin toss really isn’t 50/50 — it’s closer to 51/49, biased toward whatever side was up when the coin was thrown into the air.
"What he and his fellow researchers discovered (here’s a PDF of their paper) is that most games of chance involving coins aren’t as even as you’d think. For example, even the 50/50 coin toss really isn’t 50/50 — it’s closer to 51/49, biased toward whatever side was up when the coin was thrown into the air.
But
more incredibly, as reported by Science News,
spinning a penny, in this case one with the Lincoln Memorial on the
back, gives even more pronounced odds — the [American] penny
will land tails side up roughly 80 percent of the time."
With
a nod to Jay Larson…
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Is nothing sacred? Even a coin toss?
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