coin-tossing

Type in “10 flips for four heads” and it will guess that you need to know the probability of coin-tossing.

Wolfram Alpha and other ways to enhance database journalism » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

The financial world is not a laboratory coin-tossing game, and the seemingly silly risk aversion that shows up here may in fact be a rational response to real-world complexities that we do not fully understand, and where significant information asymmetries may exist.

Emotions and Decisions, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Everyone loves a villain, and Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh was the more colorful bad guy ... complete with silly hair and a coin-tossing gimmick.

Alison Bailes: Oscar Thoughts 2008

I thought that if you liked the nontransitive dice, you might also like a nontransitive coin-tossing problem called "Penny-ante".

Boing Boing: March 26, 2006 - April 1, 2006 Archives 2006

Does anybody want to come to my coin-tossing party?

The special "Clean House -- Home Makeover" issue of my housing co-op newsletter 2008

After spending the entire of yesterday's late morning squabbling with Fay over MSN about her tutorial allocation, which involved a fair amount of coin-tossing and a silent temper building, I began to feel better-off due to the fact that I don't need to worry about freeing up one of my days; I've got lectures everyday.

babycartercl Diary Entry babycartercl 2007

Funny, I was just thinking of coin-tossing and the unlikely probablity of six heads turning up consecutively ~0.015 … wondering what it would take for Ken to believe that the Bears winning streak is a bona fide super bowl trend.

Emanuel – Pacific Adjustments « Climate Audit 2006

Sure, they keep figuring out a way to squeak out a win, but it looks more like a string of "heads" in coin-tossing -- so many games over the last four years decided by a field goal, pure luck and the funny way that footballs bounce make the difference between greatness and just above average.

Writing again jhetley 2005

Imagine then a huge sample of records of ideal coin-tossing games, each consisting of exactly 2n trials.

Gambling Runs « Climate Audit 2005

For example, one should expect naively that in a prolonged coin-tossing game the observed number of changes of lead should increase roughly in proportion of the duration of the game.

Gambling Runs « Climate Audit 2005