For example, when I flip a coin, I have a 1/2 chance of getting head, and the same chance at getting tails. With that theory, if I toss a coin 50 times, I should get 25 heads, and 25 tails.
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However, I did 3 rounds of 50 coin flips, with results of:
1. 28 heads, 22 tails
2. 27 heads, 23 tails
3. 27 heads, 23 tails.
I assumed that perhaps the coins weren’t “true”. Maybe the sides are waited different, maybe I tossed with different height/force each time. So I went virtual, and switched to having a computer roll a dice.
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I should have a 1/6 chance at rolling a number between 1-6. So 60 rolls, should have each number come up 10 times. But in practice my results were:
1. 14
2. 9
3. 8
4. 13
5. 6
6. 10
So how come practice/reality, doesn’t align with theory, even when we take human error out of the equation?
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Probability/Statistics-wise you are using a very low sample set.
Over a set of say 100,000,000 the numbers will be closer to 50/50 (most likely).
Probability is a matter of chance though. It doesn’t dictate results. The coin has a ~50% chance of either heads or tails, for each toss. None of the tosses are linked. The results of a prior toss do not effect the chances of subsequent tosses. It is also possible that you could throw 32 tails in a row. It’s a 1 in 4,294,967,296 chance though. The more throws the smaller that chance gets.
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