Monday, October 20, 2008

CALL IT IN THE AIR

IT TURNS OUT YOUR CHANCES OF GETTING "HEADS" OR "TAILS" IS NOT 50-50:

We all know that when you flip a coin, you have a 50% chance of getting either "heads" or "tails". Or do you? Recently, a group of researchers from Stanford University conducted a study to find out whether or not there's EXACTLY a 50-50 chance when you flip a coin.

What they found is that there's actually a 51% chance that you'll get whatever side was facing up when you flipped the coin . . . and only a 49% chance that you'll get the other side. (Psychology Today)

(--Now, I'm not going to pretend I understand the physics involved here. The researchers wrote a 31-page document to summarize the exact science of it . . . but we don't really need to get into it, do we?)

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