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If you assume coin tosses are independent, it shouldn’t matter if you miss coin tosses.





Coin tosses are not independent. Unless the premise is coins toss themselves.

A person tosses a coin, so tosses are are connected to each other.

Ask yourself this question- Would your thumb hurt if you toss a coin 5000 times? If so, would that change the results?


Naturally tossed coins tend to land on the same side they started with 0.51 of the time, see

https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/diaconis_co...


Linked paper does not state that; it states that tossed coins tend to be caught on the same side they stared with slightly more than half the time. The results explicitly exclude any bouncing (which will happen if a coin lands on a hard surface).

The paper does discuss coins allowed to land on a hard surface; it is clear that this will affect the randomness, but not clear if it increases or decreases randomness, and suggests further research is needed.


Nice try, but-

The machine they use to toss the coin has a spring, and Im sure the spring tension varies through time effecting results.




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