alt Hacker NewsThat's not tossing a coin, that's barely throwing it in the air.
To me this kills the credibility of the entire study and of the authors.
Sure, there may be something to it, but people will have a very different thing on their mind unless they check the video, which I wouldn't have done without your prompting.
It's unlikely they don't understand how misleading it is.
And somehow I have the intuition a proper coin toss will not exhibit the same properties.
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I think it's still noteworthy that what many people consider a "fair toss" is not in fact a fair toss. In other words it's interesting from an applied psychology perspective even if the physics of the phenomenon isn't particularly interesting.
a coin is likely to land on the same side. it was flipped from if it was tossed by a machine at low RPM and height consistently*
there's your paper
Is it unlikely? If I didn't read your comment I wouldn't see any problem there. I never saw anyone flipping a coin in a different way. It's just not done much around me.