Flutterby™! : Confirmation that coin flips are biased towards the starting face

Coin flips don’t appear to have 50/50 odds after all

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) that a coin is 50.8% likely to land on the same side it started on, altering one of society’s most traditional assumptions about random decision-making that dates back at least to the Roman Empire.

This is confirmation of earlier (2007) work by Persi Diaconis that suggested about 51%....