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Sunday, February 29, 2004
Randomness It's interesting to me that somebody had to spend a bunch of money and time to find out that if you do the same thing to the same object in exactly the same way each time, then the outcome will be the same. Some guys at Harvard built a coin flipper to figure out that coin flipping is not in and of itself a random event. I remember thinking about this as a little kid hoping to be able to use it as an advantage in neighborhood or schoolyard football. I thought that if I started with a coin the same face up, and placed it on the same place on my thumb, and flipped it with the same amount of energy, and caught it at the same point, then I should be able to replicate the outcome each time so that we could start with the football. I remember practicing the coin toss. I was able to flip to heads more often than 1:2 by practicing. I was probably 7 or 8 at the time. Surely it doesn't (I guess I should say shouldn't) take a Harvard study to make us aware of the obvious. |
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