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.

  • PetDinosaurs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    268·
    1 year ago

    No! Bad treefrog.

    If it “feels like” something, you’re probably fooling yourself.

    Hard evidence. The easiest person to fool is yourself.

    Edit: people, please don’t down vote treefrog. They are learning, and I am joking.

    Be nice. This place is way toxic. I’m not sure how much more I can handle it.

    • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Jokes on me! I doubt most of my decisions and the logic that lead up to them!

      Evidenced based research ftw, though.

      • PetDinosaurs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        If you’re still young, careful about too much imposter syndrome.

        It took me until some reasonably extreme events for me to acknowledge that I was smart.

        • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I’m being a bit facetious. It took me quite a while, and with the help of my best friend, to realize I am smart. I don’t like to say that sort of thing. I am smart when it comes to the things that I know well, but am clueless on so much else.

          • PetDinosaurs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            21·
            1 year ago

            Exactly.

            Just making sure.

            I had a lot of trouble gathering that confidence as well until I got into industry.