Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Quantifying luck



I spent over THREE HOURS testing 40 coins to find the ultimate lucky coin champion - I divided the coins into groups of 20 and threw these groups 100 times. Each coin that landed on heads got thrown again and so on until one coin was left. This coin I marked with a red dot and repeated the process another 99 times. The aim of this is to discover whether by testing and quantifying luck, it becomes more believable.

One of these coins had nine dots by the end, another only had two. I gave one coin to Annie and one to Jane. The catch? I placed an extra seven dots on the losing (unluckiest) coin but told the receiving person that it was in fact the luckiest.

Will the real lucky coin bring the good fortune or is it enough to tell someone something is lucky?

Oh, and I'm not saying who has which. I wouldn't want to ruin things now would I?

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