RE: [tips] Are coin tosses random?

Philosophically this issue is more important. Does "random" just mean ignorance of the mechanisms involved in determining the outcome (and ignorance of the current states of those mechanisms). In the absence of ignorance, would anything be random? Cheers, [Karl L. Wuensch]

Re: [tips] Are coin tosses random?

What to do if you're stuck in one place for a long while? Flip a coin...10,000 times. An early study of coin tosses...and a byproduct of WWII. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edmund_Kerrich Hugh Sent from my iPad On Feb 28, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. mailto:jeff.ric...@scottsd

Re: [tips] Are coin tosses random?

On Feb 28, 2015, at 6:28 PM, Jim Clark wrote: > One lesson I take away from Jeff`s original post (i.e., that even a simple > coin toss probability is a challenge to determine) is that we should not > worry too much by such minutia as whether all the abstract assumptions for > statistical test