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.

  • JessicaEnglish
    44•1 year ago

    The illusion of a coin flipping in the air allows those that have mastered the act to get near 100% precision.

    • @VeltossEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      Crazy how simple and obvious that seems after you see it, but I never would have suspected it if someone did it right in front of me.

    • @PetDinosaursOPEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Omg. I must learn this.

      Shit. I have zero cash in my house.

      • JessicaEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I tried for a few minutes, before my son got bored and wanted to move on 😜. If you do learn it, let us know!

        • @PetDinosaursOPEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          How old is your son? I imagine I’ll do the same, but this is the only magic trick that I’ve really wanted to learn. My son has some fine motor delays so he won’t be able to do this.

          I realized that I’ve interacted with you a few times here, so I ended up looking at your comment history. We seem to share a lot of similar characteristics.

          I noticed that you’re trans and had a Q&A. I’m cis-het and I missed that session. I hope that we’ll interact again. I want to understand T as well as I understand LGB. I just don’t know anyone T.

          • JessicaEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            My boy is about 15 now. I miss the times when magic was, well, magic. I love the times we have now, and look forward to the future as well. But, I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t miss my little boy.

            If you have any Q’s, ask away. I may do another AMA soon, for fun.

    • @[email protected]BEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

      illusion

      Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

      I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.