When you toss a coin, why is it more likely u get more tails then heads?

Answer 1

well the pribability is almost fifty-fifty so if you divide the number of tails by the number of head you be most likely to abtain a value in a range of 0.9 to 1.1

Answer 2

Overall you may think that the tossing of a coin is random - it isn't. It is 'chaotic'. If you knew every parameter of the coin and it's travel through the air, the restitution of the floor etc etc then you could predict exactly which way the coin would fall. However the results depend so precisely on the starting conditions that even minute differences affect the final resting status of the coin. It is expected that these changes occur so frequently that half the time the coin will land heads and half the time tails but it may be that there are certain parameters that do not change sufficient between throws to change the coin's final resting status.

A similar argument applies to roulette - true randomness is VERY hard to produce.

Answer 3

Actually, no coin has a .5 probability of landing heads, i.e., no coin is truly fair. Long trials will invariably reveal some kind of bias, though very small. The idea that a coin toss is "fair" is simply a mathematical idealization, in the same realm as the idealization that a bicycle wheel is a circle, or that billboards are rectangular. None of these abstractions truly exist as objects. So the question is a perfectly reasonable one, except that there would not appear to be a reason for a bias towards tails. Some coins would turn out to be biased towards heads. But every coin is guaranteed to be biased (and not truly circular either).

Answer 4

There's a 50/50 chance but maybe the way that most people flip the coin make it more likely to land on tails than heads.

Answer 5

It's not. The misconception arises because of people. When asked to call more people will call heads than they will tails so more will lose through calling. If you are going to flip a coin with lots of people (over a period of time and for many different reasons) make sure that YOU flip the coin and you have a (human social effect) chance of winning more often than losing.

Happy flipping.

Chris

Answer 6

It isn't. That's a silly myth. The weight of the coin has absolutely NO impact on which side the coin falls on. Since the coin is spinning, and the both sides are attached, the effect of any additional weight on the heads side will be felt equally on the tails side. Weight variations will change the centre of gravity and therefore rotation, but this has a negligible effect on the probability of landing on any one particular side.

Answer 7

You are WRONG!!! There is about a 50/50 chance each time. That mean about half the tosses will be heads and about half the tosses will be tails.

Answer 8

Strangely enough, it turns out that there's a bias in coin flipping. According to Persi Diaconis - a professor at Stanford who has studied this problem extensively - coins land the same way they started about 51% of the time.

See the linked source for details.

Answer 9

Because Your coin is biased. In order to test for bias, do a goodness of fit test, using the binomial and a contingency table (chi squared). in an ideal world the coin would have a uniform cross section, however this seems not to be the case in real life due to minor imperfections in the coin itself.

Answer 10

a "fair" coin will have tails land as frequently as heads.

It may just be a small sample size you are looking at. If you flip a coin once, and it falls heads - you cannot say that the coin will always land heads.

A good sample size (many flips) is required to truly evalute whether the coin is fair, and will be 50-50.

Answer 11

It's always 50/50 because the coin has no memory, so if it lands on heads, on time the next time it's again 50/50 chance.