Shareef Siddeek wrote: > In a local radio presentation, one mathematician has shown that tossing > a coin is not always random. If one positions the head up when tossing, > he/she will more likely end up with the head more than 50% (to be exact > 51%) of the time. What do the stat gurus say about this? Cheers. Siddeek
I think that if the mathematician can do this repeatably with this coin, then I will be happy to believe it. I guess I don't see any "statistical" issues here that "stat gurus" need to expound upon. -- Paige Miller Eastman Kodak Company paige dot miller at kodak dot com http://www.kodak.com "It's nothing until I call it!" -- Bill Klem, NL Umpire "When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance" -- Lee Ann Womack . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
