Flipped coins found not to be as fair as thought

The researchers found that Diaconis was right—there was a slight bias. They found the coin landed with the same side up as when it was launched 50.8% of the time. […]

The team concludes that while the bias they found is slight, it could be meaningful if multiple coin tosses are used to determine an outcome—for example, flipping a quarter 1,000 times and betting $1 each time (with winnings of 0 or 2$ each round) should result in an average overall win of $19.

Perhaps a (ahem) chance for @jamesthomson@mastodon.social’s unbiased

@help, there’s some weirdness going on here. Different character counts when composing on the web or in the app. And then when posted within the (supposed) limit from the app, the last bit of the post is cut off on the timeline without a link back to the canonical blog post.

@jarrod The (?) seems to be the culprit. I have had issues with text that can be confused as code tags.

@pratik Ah, thanks. Now should I leave it as is for @manton to look into, or fix it myself and move on? 🤔

@help Possibly related, Mastodon usernames aren’t getting linked on Mastodon itself. Getting usernames to link correctly has always been hit or miss for me.