Study: Flipping a coin is not always a 50/50 proposition for heads or tails

Making choices by flipping a coin is a popular practice. It’s used to determine results in a variety of disciplines, including cricket, football, poker, and more. What if, however, there were a way to manipulate the outcome of a coin toss such that you could choose whether it came up heads or tails? Let’s investigate it.

Coin throwing has recently been the subject of a fascinating discovery. Scientists have just produced a research disputing the idea that the odds are always 50/50 when a coin is used to decide anything. The likelihood of flipping a coin and obtaining either heads or tails is not quite 50/50, according to the most recent studies. Consequently, it is advised to flip a coin carefully and choose the side (heads or tails).

According to a pre-print study posted on arXiv, researchers have discovered a bias that occurs naturally while flipping coins. When the coin would fall on the same side after being thrown and caught in one’s hand was the goal of the research. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam set out to answer this question.

The upward-facing side of the coin returned to its original position 50.8% of the time after a team of professionals tossing the coins 3,50,757 times. The researchers came to the conclusion that a coin is more likely to fall on tails following a toss if it begins on heads, and vice versa.

Additionally, the X page of Earth.com posted on this study conducted by experts in Amsterdam. The tweet states, “According to a recent study led by researchers at the University of Amsterdam, coin tosses are not as random as we thought, and there may be a slight bias towards the side that starts facing up.”

“Our data also strongly support the idea that when some (but not all) people toss a coin, it lands on the same side as it started,” the researcher said. This exact forecast is supported by our statistics, which show that coins often fall on the same side.