The big picture: Coin tosses have been used for centuries as a fair and unbiased way of deciding between two options, and some important decisions have been based on the flip of a coin. The game of ...

Conventional wisdom about coin flips may have been turned on its head. A global team of researchers investigating the statistical and physical nuances of coin tosses worldwide concluded (via Phys.org) ...

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam analyzed the probability of a coin toss and found that it is not exactly 50/50. The team employed 48 people, using 46 currencies, to flip a coin 350,757 ...

If you flip a coin, the odds of getting heads or tails are an equal 50 per cent chance – right? While this is what statistics textbooks will tell you, there is increasing evidence that it isn’t quite ...

For decades, flipping a coin has symbolized perfect randomness—a fair, 50/50 chance between heads and tails. But research suggests that this age-old belief might not be as foolproof as we thought. A ...

All bets are off, because it turns out that flipping a coin — which is rather questionably used to tie-break elections across the world — isn’t actually a fair fifty-fifty chance. As part of a new, ...

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It’s generally thought flipping a coin is a quick and fair way to settle random disputes. Someone calls heads or tails as a coin is flipped, offering 50/50 odds it will land on either side. But what ...

People have been relying on the coin toss for quick, unbiased decision-making since ancient times. But is a coin flip 50/50? A new study questions the fairness of the flip. Your chances of stumbling ...