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Old 07-20-2007, 09:09 PM
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Default Re: Teaching an intelligent guy about a basic statistics concept
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Please. Your friend is wrong. If you flip a coin, get heads and flip it again, everybody knows you're more likely to get heads.


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I meant a fair coin.

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If you had read the paper you would know it refers to a fair coin. To sum it up, if you try flipping a fair coin as fair (vigorously) as possible, it's about 51% to come up the way it started.
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