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To: SeekAndFind

1 in 64 isn’t a miracle, it’s clustering. Do the 1000 coin toss test, guarantee you’ll get a couple of runs of 6 and more. You’ll also be bored to the border of suicide, and you’re thumb will hurt a lot. But you’ll learn a lot about how random chance actually works.


17 posted on 02/02/2016 11:24:18 AM PST by discostu (This is a different kind of flying... all together.)
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To: discostu

Let’s say you START your test run and the FIRST six are all heads AND the coin flipper is **Hillary**:

Doesn’t that last part make it all a LITTLE more suspicious..?


20 posted on 02/02/2016 11:26:08 AM PST by gaijin
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To: discostu
1 in 64 isn't a miracle, it's clustering.

I heartily agree, that is how you win at craps. Plus this was a situation where Clinton needed at least 4 delegates to beat Sanders so that 6/6 coin toss is what I call a statistical certainty.

35 posted on 02/02/2016 11:41:13 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: discostu
1 in 64 isn’t a miracle, it’s clustering.

Oh it's a cluster you-know-what, alright.

37 posted on 02/02/2016 11:42:15 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: discostu
1 in 64 isn’t a miracle, it’s clustering.

Were they independent tosses, in the sense that they were done with separate coins by separate people in the separate counties, with witnesses from both groups? Of did the toss(es) purportedly get done in one place, with no one looking?

The latter is hard to believe, so your explanation is the most likely.

57 posted on 02/02/2016 12:23:23 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: discostu

“1 in 64 isn’t a miracle, it’s clustering.”

Misuse of the science. It can only be clustering if every flip was with the same coin in sequence as you suggested the 1K coin test.


82 posted on 02/02/2016 2:42:42 PM PST by apostoli (13 Hours will determine the next 8 years!)
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