Posted on 02/02/2016 11:15:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won six back-to-back coin tosses against opponent Bernie Sander's camp at a half-dozen Iowa precincts where voting results were too close to call Tuesday morning — a mathematical feat that raised eyebrows and a few questions.
The 1-in-64 odds of Clinton successfully winning six coin flips across Polk, Jasper, Cedar and Johnson counties during a deadlocked Iowa caucus prompted confusion and concern from political experts and social media users.
"It is curious," said Dr. David Bridsell, Dean of the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College. "You don't want the awarding of delegates to come down to heads or tails."
"It's nice to know that America is a developed nation and we decid our next President with a coin toss," Tweeted Nick Zaxowski, echoing the sentiments of many others on social media.
In Des Moines, a coin landed tails up at the Weeks Middle School gymnasium following a split.
"That's how it works," one voter sporting Sanders stickers said, referring to the rules set forth by the Iowa Democratic Party, which allows a coin toss in the case of a tie. "It was very, very close. Remember this is a caucus."
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She’s always been “lucky” at gambling. Remember her “cattle futures”.
Watched Watters world and saw a guy state” I don’t see why I have to pay for higher education”
It’s all about them and what the country can do for them. How JFK’s party has changed.
Satan did it . . . She’s his beeeooottttcccchhhh!
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I wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t the other way around.
What I don’t understand is, if Clinton wins the coin toss, and then there’s another one, they don’t just give it to Sanders to even things out. Then a coin toss if there’s a third one, then the fourth one, give it to the other guy. And so on. Why does one get 6 and the other 0 when it should be 3-3?
This is the same “luck” that made her rich in cattle futures.
Each coin toss is 50/50 but, well, cool headline.
She has “crazy eyes”. She looked awful in her vict0ry tirade this AM — cold, hard, mean. Beware anybody who crosses her.
That one, by the way, was actually a bribe. The trader picks a few winners out of all his trades, gives them to Hillary and says she made them.
“Heads I win, Tails you lose”.
6 heads in a row.
2^6 = 64
Odds: 63 to 1
Now if it were the same number coming up 6 straight times on a single (6-sided) dice cube, the formula would be:
6^6, or 6 x6 x6 x6 x6 x6 = 46,656
Odds: 46,655 to 1
...actually, it needn’t be 6 straight heads or 6 straight tails, but rather 6 straight wins with any combination of heads or tails. Same odds: 1 in 64, or 63 to 1
2^6 = 64
We’ve been doing coin tosses all morning the best so far has been 4 in a row. Whoever gets six in a row by the end of the day
gets 20 bucks.
Let’s not go too far off on this.
(1) the coin tosses were made in separate precincts...not in the ^implied^ “same room” with Hill and The Bern present.
(2) what were the individual selections and who got to choose?
Perspective, people!
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.
No. I’ve done the thousand test. With coins and different types of dice. Clustering happens. And in this case the effort to reward ration is way out of whack, rigging a coin toss takes effort, and what did she gain? 1 delegate? Maybe? Probably not even that.
Oh it's a cluster you-know-what, alright.
2^4 = 2 x2 x2 x2 = 16
Odds: 1 in 16 (15 to 1)
Maybe the Democrat/Socialist Party is just floating this as a way to count electoral votes ...
Next Power Ball will be won by Hillary ... a sure thing
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