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Coin Flipping Poll

Poll: On average, which pattern takes fewer coin tosses?
This poll is closed.
They'll happen equally fast, on average.
78.57%
 11 78.57%
Tails, Heads, Tails takes fewer tosses.
0%
 0 0%
Tails, Heads, Heads takes fewer tosses.
14.29%
 2 14.29%
I can't figure it out.
7.14%
 1 7.14%
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RE: Coin Flipping Poll
April 17, 2010 at 1:12 am
(April 16, 2010 at 8:19 pm)pack3tg0st Wrote: statistically, there isn't a difference.


Yes.


The chance on every toss is 50/50. With a large sample the results will be even. There are no real patterns.

That comes from Business Statistics, which I did in 1972. I might have misremembered.
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Coin Flipping Poll

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Coin Flipping Poll - by Tiberius - April 16, 2010 at 8:05 pm
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by pack3tg0st - April 16, 2010 at 8:19 pm
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by padraic - April 17, 2010 at 1:12 am
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by Rev. Rye - April 16, 2010 at 10:33 pm
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by Eilonnwy - April 17, 2010 at 12:03 am
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by The_Flying_Skeptic - April 17, 2010 at 12:26 am
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by Tiberius - April 17, 2010 at 12:27 am
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by Paul the Human - April 17, 2010 at 12:33 am
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by theVOID - April 17, 2010 at 12:47 am
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by Tiberius - April 17, 2010 at 12:53 am
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by Zhalentine - April 17, 2010 at 1:03 am
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by Violet - April 17, 2010 at 3:53 am
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by Tiberius - April 17, 2010 at 10:55 am
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by Paul the Human - April 17, 2010 at 11:03 am
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by fr0d0 - April 17, 2010 at 11:18 am
RE: Coin Flipping Poll - by Violet - April 19, 2010 at 1:00 pm

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