Great bunch of stories. I think I’m most shocked by the lung float test. Not that it’s still being used, but that it’s being used in the United States. In 2023!
The mechanics of exactly how a coin flip is performed must surely be relevant to the coin flip bias phenomenon. The experimenters appear to have attempted factor out the effect of flip methodology by having a large (48) number of different people do the flipping. I would think one should do the opposite: construct a precisely controllable physical device for doing the flipping, similer the PGA's Iron Byron (used to study the mechanics of a golf swing.) This would allow you to study how a probability distribution on initial conditions influences the probablilty distribution of same vs different landing position.
Great bunch of stories. I think I’m most shocked by the lung float test. Not that it’s still being used, but that it’s being used in the United States. In 2023!
What the hell???!!!
Seeing astonishing and indisputably real creatures like the tentacle thing makes the obsession with looking for non-existent Bigfeets even sillier.
Good stuff, Kiddo.
The mechanics of exactly how a coin flip is performed must surely be relevant to the coin flip bias phenomenon. The experimenters appear to have attempted factor out the effect of flip methodology by having a large (48) number of different people do the flipping. I would think one should do the opposite: construct a precisely controllable physical device for doing the flipping, similer the PGA's Iron Byron (used to study the mechanics of a golf swing.) This would allow you to study how a probability distribution on initial conditions influences the probablilty distribution of same vs different landing position.