He insists he had not even looked at the chapter the test was on, and that he flipped a coin for every single question, and that the teacher had watched him flipping the coin from the beginning of the test and had told him the odds of him getting the score he did were astronomical. Of course, it...
I was the one who figured, incorrectly, that a score of 86 meant 93 correct answers. I hadn't thought it out carefully enough to realize the score with 93 correct answers would be 93 - 14 instead of 100 - 14. I told Grandpa, and he said he definitely scored in the high 80s. If it was a score of...
Incredible coin toss story--what is its probability?
Today my grandfather told me a story, which he insists is true and which I believe he believes is true, which seems to defy all probability to an incredible degree.
He told me that many years ago, when he was taking a psychology class with...