Thursday, November 17, 2005

Hiccoughs

Hiccoughs


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The minor challenge for this week had been to tell me the p value for the following experiment. I postulated that saying the magic word “abracadabra” had increased the number of heads when tossing a coin. The experiment was carried out on Tuesday: I tossed a coin and got three tails in a row; then repeated the process after the magic word and had 2 heads and a tail. There we have it...proof (just send the Nobel prize in the post). What is the p value?

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