For decades, flipping a coin has symbolized perfect randomness—a fair, 50/50 chance between heads and tails. But research suggests that this age-old belief might not be as foolproof as we thought. A ...

If you flip a coin, the odds of getting heads or tails are an equal 50 per cent chance – right? While this is what statistics textbooks will tell you, there is increasing evidence that it isn’t quite ...

When you're running for public office, Election Day is everything. Once all of the ballots are in, candidates can get a sense of relief that it's over, even though they may not know whether they won.

Conventional wisdom about coin flips may have been turned on its head. A global team of researchers investigating the statistical and physical nuances of coin tosses worldwide concluded (via Phys.org) ...

The big picture: Coin tosses have been used for centuries as a fair and unbiased way of deciding between two options, and some important decisions have been based on the flip of a coin. The game of ...

All bets are off, because it turns out that flipping a coin — which is rather questionably used to tie-break elections across the world — isn’t actually a fair fifty-fifty chance. As part of a new, ...

A coin flip is considered by many to be the perfect 50/50 random event, even though — being an event subject to Newtonian physics — the results are in fact anything but random. But that’s okay, ...

A coin flip is the quintessence of fifty-fifty chance, but a large group of researchers recently overturned its equitable reputation. Recording a painstaking 350,000+ coin flips by hand, they found ...

It’s generally thought flipping a coin is a quick and fair way to settle random disputes. Someone calls heads or tails as a coin is flipped, offering 50/50 odds it will land on either side. But what ...

People have been relying on the coin toss for quick, unbiased decision-making since ancient times. But is a coin flip 50/50? A new study questions the fairness of the flip. Your chances of stumbling ...