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SYSK Choice: How Probability REALLY Works & Proven Ways to Master Motivation

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Do the Laws of Probability Actually Predict the Results of Random Coin Flipping?

Every so often you will get a run of good luck. If i'm tossing a coin, and heads wins, and i toss ten times, and we keep playing that game, one time in a thousand or so i will toss ten consecutive heads. So now, if lots of people do this, one of them has got a really hot coin. It's just ten heads in a row. Keep that coin. That's really good. Now the test is, ok, having done that, now take that coin and start tossing again. And in all likelihood, it will just be from thet if you ignore the first ten,. From that point on, it will roughly equal numbers of heads

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