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Heads or Tails? Go ahead, flip a coin.?
Flip a coin one time and record your results.
What? You got something better to do with your time? Then go do it. This has got to be as profound as "Coke or Pepsi?" I got tails.
6 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I took a brand new, 2009, shiny gold, $1 Loonie, that I just got at the bank...
Now as you know from your stats course, you need a minimum standard sample size of n=20, to "extract any information from an event, regarding a population".
Stats also tells us to expect 10 heads, and 10 tails.
The results (whichever side of the coin was UP when uncovered) are..
1 ... heads (Picture of QE ][)
2 ... heads
3 ... tails (Picture of a Loon - hence the term "Loonie")
4 ... heads
5 ... tails
6 ... heads
7 ... tails
8 ... tails
9 ... heads
10 ... tails
11 ... heads
12 ... heads
13 ... heads
14 ... tails
15 ... heads
16 ... heads
17 ... heads
18 ... heads
19 ... tails
20 ... heads
Took longer to key in than to do (And I am a half assed good keyboarder.)
Results 13 heads, 7 tails. Make of it what you will.
My conclusions:
I am a horrible coin tosser, as I also dropped it 11 times.
Something must be affecting the coin, so that is falls tails side down more often than would be expected.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I did that once for a college statistics class assignment. I was offered a grade. What are you offering? A penny for your thoughts, to coin a phrase. What about the two old coin collectors who got together just to talk about old dimes.