People have been relying on the coin toss for quick, unbiased decision-making since ancient times. But is a coin flip 50/50? A new study questions the fairness of the flip. Your chances of stumbling ...
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 ...
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, ...
We all have different ways we make the truly tough decisions. Jeff Bezos asks himself one question when he needs to make an important decision. Derek Sivers says, “It’s either ‘Hell yeah!’ or ‘no.'” ...
If you flip a coin, the odds of getting heads or tails are an equal 50 per cent chance – right? While this is what statistics textbooks will tell you, there is increasing evidence that it isn’t quite ...
Flip a coin. Heads? Take a step to the left. Tails? Take a step to the right. In the quantum world? Go in both directions at once, like a wave spreading out. Called the walker analogy, this random ...
TAMPA, Fla — With the 2020 presidential election a little more than two months away, registered voters are trying to decide who to pick. A recent Pew Research study suggests this year’s voter turnout ...
Mayor Margaret Gentle stood before a room of residents and city employees in North Port, Fla., explaining why, after almost 15 years as their leader, she would be stepping down. Her reelection race ...