Flipping a coin is often the initial example used to help teach probability and statistics to maths students. Often, there is talk of how, given a fair coin, the probability of landing heads or ...

As it turns out, we tend towards the same cognitive errors with coin flips. Despite being pretty much the iconic example of ...

Male, grey hair, green top: If you had a dice, an ordinary dice and you threw it, well the probability of getting a one would be six to one. Male, yellow and grey t-shirt: Like with a coin ...

For a coin flip, heads or tails each has a probability of occurring 50% of the time (p = 0.50), so it would be plotted on a chart with a line from the y-axis at 0.50. A uniform distribution has ...

A coin flip is considered by many to be the perfect 50/50 random event, even though — being an event subject to Newtonian physics — the results are in fact anything but random. But that’s ...