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.

  • 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
      11·
      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
          2·
          1 year ago

          Exactly.

          Just making sure.

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