Coin Flip Fairness
Comments debate the randomness, biases, and probability of coin flips, including streaks, same-side tendencies, and methods for fair outcomes from biased coins, often using coin tosses as analogies for chance events.
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That shouldn't change anything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_coin#Fair_results_from_a_...
As good as flipping a coin /s
Basically, a coin flip. Sounds like not better than chance.
Flip a coin enough times, it's bound to be tails
"fair coin" refers to both the probability of heads and tails being equal (which is still justified) as well as the trials being independent (unlikely with 100/200; more likely the "coin" is some imperfect PRNG in a loop)
Anecdotally, with practice, some people can flip a coin to a desired outcome like 65% of the time. And .65^20 is only around 1 in 10,000.
Since neither heads nor tails bias had been hypothesised, 1/512 rather than 1/1024.
Any random one, just as it's possible to flip a coin and get heads a few times in a row.
Then it becomes an 80k coin toss experiment :)
A flipped coin could have gotten that same fraction. ;)