When you flip a coin to make a decision, there's an equal chance of getting heads and tails. What if you flipped two coins repeatedly, so that one option would win as soon as two heads showed up in a ...
A coin flip is the quintessence of fifty-fifty chance, but a large group of researchers recently overturned its equitable reputation. Recording a painstaking 350,000+ coin flips by hand, they found ...
Many people mix up odds and probability at casino tables. These words sound the same but mean different things. Knowing both ...
A coin flip is considered by many to be the perfect 50/50 random event, even though — being an event subject to Newtonian physics — the results are in fact anything but random. But that’s okay, ...
Flipping a coin is often the initial example used to help teach probability and statistics to maths students. Often, there is talk of how, given a fair coin, the probability of landing heads or tails ...
The coin flip bet is goofy, dumb fun. As editor of the sports betting section, if I endorse it with too much enthusiasm, I’ll be called out by serious bettors for pushing a wager that sportsbooks want ...
Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. There are two types: Riddler Express for those of you who want ...
Each month, the NBER Digest summarizes several recent NBER working papers. These papers have not been peer-reviewed, but are circulated by their authors for comment ...
You can place plenty of bets on the Super Bowl, from typical wagers on the game itself to weird and bizarre props. Somewhere, someone is offering a bet on or including on a watch party’s prop sheet ...