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BiteCode_dev11/19/20242 repliesview on HN

If you claim to do a research on coin tossing, the minimum is to be aware on how people toss coin.

The whole purpose of tossing a coin is randomness, so of course you want high and fast.

If the result was that no matter how high and fast you throw is you get this bias, it would have been interesting.

But now you just say "if you do things badly, things don't work".


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ummonk11/19/2024

No, the whole point of the paper (and the physics model it is verifying) is to see what happens in normal human coin tosses.

If you want to measure what happens specifically with high and fast coin tosses, then that’s an entirely different study to be done.

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Vinnl11/19/2024

That still sound valuable if people generally tend to do it badly? If only to provide an argument for doing it properly.