Researchers who flipped coins 350,757 times have confirmed that the chance of landing the coin the same way up as it started is around 51 per cent
If you flip a coin, the odds of getting heads or tails are an equal 50 per cent chance – right? While this is what statistics textbooks will tell you, there is increasing evidence that it isn’t quite true in the real world.
Now, František Bartoš at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and a team of 49 others have conducted the most robust test of this theory yet carried out. He recruited dozens of friends and colleagues for a marathon coin-flipping session.“When you and your friends sit in a room, play some music, chat, it’s like a nice activity,” he says. “Some people watch movies together and some people flip coins for 12 hours. It’s actually much more pleasant than you would expect.
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