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Are You A Betting Man (or Woman)?
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From: FCUK
Originally posted by Lips2000
Well...wait a minute...
S2R is right: the coin doesn't know what it flipped last time...but...statistically, there is a 50/50 chance on *each* throw; true. But, the trend has to mean something. Statistically, if I throw the same coin in the air 80 times, 40 will land heads and 40 will land tails...so...it's got to land on tails soon or I'd have the coin looked at. I voted for tails.
Mark
Well...wait a minute...
S2R is right: the coin doesn't know what it flipped last time...but...statistically, there is a 50/50 chance on *each* throw; true. But, the trend has to mean something. Statistically, if I throw the same coin in the air 80 times, 40 will land heads and 40 will land tails...so...it's got to land on tails soon or I'd have the coin looked at. I voted for tails.
Mark
Lips, it doesn't work like that, every flip has a 50:50 chance of heads or tails, regardless of what has happened previously.
This is a very basic concept of statistics that almost every student struggles with when they start studying it ..... I know, I did
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