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Why are people so stupid? It's not a 50/50 chance of a coin landing on heads or tails, but a 33% chance.

There's the chance of landing on heads, tails, or the slim chance of the coin landing on the narrow part and staying balanced.

If it's a slim chance how does it become as much as the others

So that slim chance has the same chance as the other two?

Wtf? Just because there's a possibility that it will land on its side doesn't make it so that it will land there 1/3 of the time.

Learn statistics you fucking moron you fail at being funny.

smart ass

Then it falls over and it lands on heads or tails.

duh

Okay, but still. It's not 50%.

It's like 45/45/10.

At 5/17/10 08:42 PM, SloppyMoe606 wrote: Why are people so stupid? It's not a 50/50 chance of a coin landing on heads or tails, but a 33% chance.

There's the chance of landing on heads, tails, or the slim chance of the coin landing on the narrow part and staying balanced.

Surely there's much less than a 33% chance of it landing on it's side. I've flipped coins many times and never have seen it land on it's side.

Wouldn't it be a 49.9999% chance for heads and tails and a .0002% chance for the side

I believe it would be more like 49.95/49.95/.1

At 5/17/10 08:44 PM, Xarnor wrote:

At 5/17/10 08:43 PM, SloppyMoe606 wrote: Okay, but still. It's not 50%.

It's like 45/45/10.

More like 49.999/49.999/0.002

There's still a chance though. It's not 50/50!

What about the 1% left over? Is there a 1% chance that it wont ever hit the surface, and will just forever float in mid air?

How about the OP plays against me heads up for rolls giving me 2/1 on tails?

At 5/17/10 08:45 PM, xenonmonkey wrote: I believe it would be more like 49.95/49.95/.1

I was just about to say that. The chance of it land on its side must be around one in a trillion, more or less.

Fine, smart one, it is 49.5% heads, 49.5% tails, 1% other. That sound better to you?

At 5/17/10 08:45 PM, SloppyMoe606 wrote: There's still a chance though. It's not 50/50!

Effectively it is.

At 5/17/10 08:48 PM, SmartNoob wrote: Fine, smart one, it is 49.5% heads, 49.5% tails, 1% other. That sound better to you?

Who are you referring to in this thread?

At 5/17/10 08:46 PM, jonthomson wrote: How about the OP plays against me heads up for rolls giving me 2/1 on tails?

Wow calm down now poker face... >:(

At 5/17/10 08:43 PM, SimmyKimmy wrote: Then it falls over and it lands on heads or tails.

duh

^ This. I mean, sure there is a chance of it spinning around. But then it falls on one right?

Nothing is certain.

At 5/17/10 08:45 PM, Lucy wrote: What about the 1% left over? Is there a 1% chance that it wont ever hit the surface, and will just forever float in mid air?

I guess that's how much of a chance a strong gust of wind will come and blow it away. Or maybe a bird will swoop down and snatch it out of midair.

It's not 50/50 anyway because of the slight difference in weight between the sides.

At 5/17/10 08:42 PM, SloppyMoe606 wrote: Why are people so stupid? It's not a 50/50 chance of a coin landing on heads or tails, but a 33% chance.

There's the chance of landing on heads, tails, or the slim chance of the coin landing on the narrow part and staying balanced.

You idiot, that's a SLIM CHANCE. If it's a slim chance, there's no way each outcome could be a third each.

At 5/17/10 08:42 PM, SloppyMoe606 wrote: Why are people so stupid?

I know right? Some people are so stupid as to angrily respond to a thread about some poorly done statistics. It's KUH-RAAAZY!

It IS 50/50 you fucking dogbird.

Try placing a coin on its side(especially a quarter), the side is not flat; there's a bunch of grooves. A coin(ESPECIALLY A QUARTER) will NEVER land on its side.

Simple physics will also tell you a coin will never land on its side. Firstly, no ground or surface is ever COMPLETELY flat and angled at zero degrees. Even one degree in one direction will tip the coin over. And the rotation as well; there might be a chance if you find a flat surface and you spin the coin along its side, but the chance of you finding the perfect angle is a dot over nothing.

Since you flip a coin on its flat side, the side is constantly rotating. Even it the side does hit the ground at 0 degrees, the force of the rotation will never allow it to stay in that position.

At 5/17/10 08:42 PM, SloppyMoe606 wrote: Why are people so stupid? It's not a 50/50 chance of a coin landing on heads or tails, but a 33% chance.

There's the chance of landing on heads, tails, or the slim chance of the coin landing on the narrow part and staying balanced.

Oh shaddup and play Russian roulette like the rest of us. The chances are Oh shit/Oh shit.

At 5/17/10 09:03 PM, Mz-frost95-fr wrote: It IS 50/50 you fucking dogbird.

Try placing a coin on its side(especially a quarter), the side is not flat; there's a bunch of grooves. A coin(ESPECIALLY A QUARTER) will NEVER land on its side.

Simple physics will also tell you a coin will never land on its side....

This guy just killed your thread. Now go home and learn to math.

theres a chance the coin will shatter into pieces and impale your eyes, would that count as a percent?

At 5/17/10 08:42 PM, SloppyMoe606 wrote: There's the chance of landing on heads, tails, or the slim chance of the coin landing on the narrow part and staying balanced.

Tails: 45.99%
Heads: 45.99%
Balanced: 0.02%

I've never seen a coin be flipped on to its side, and I've witnessed plenty of con tosses.

So the probability of it landing on the side is what we would call negligible, and small enough to disregard in comparison to the other events.

You could also take into account that the weight of the coin probably isn't evenly distributed to both faces, since different things are printed on each side.