Posted
2/25/2004 06:45:00 PM
by Douglas
I had a statistics professor in college tell the class he actually saw a flipped coin land on it's edge. He was, of course, lying. But, Dr. Barnes, you can now officially
suck it:The randomness in a coin toss, it appears, is introduced by sloppy humans. Each human-generated flip has a different height and speed, and is caught at a different angle, giving different outcomes.
The folks at Harvard (and NPR) have
way too much time on their hands.