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fbartoslast Tuesday at 9:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

Yes, there is indeed a lot of heterogeneity in the bias between flippers and we are going to put more emphasis on it in an upcoming revision. However, it's hard to tell whether there are two groups or a continuous scale of increasing bias. From our examination of the data, and continuum seem to be the more likely case, but we would need many many more people flipping a lot of coins to test this properly.

Yes, training the most wobbly flippers sounds like a very interesting idea. It might indeed answer additional questions but it's not really something I wanna run more studies on :)


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ineptechlast Tuesday at 11:47 PM

Understandable, but I guess it's hard to put much weight on this data given how easy it is to introduce the effect being studied intentionally. Were the subjects aware of D-H-M beforehand? I wasn't before today, but I've been able to fake a coin flip with precession for many years (a very useful skill for parents of two small children) and if I was participating in a study like this I would be pretty hyper-aware of how much "sideways" I was giving it.

SexxxyKitty17last Wednesday at 1:20 AM

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