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Statistics and Probability
The mathematics of uncertainty, inference, and probability.
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- How did Bartoš and colleagues test the same-side coin-flip bias at a scale large enough to confirm it?
- What did the 2007 physics paper predict about a coin's tendency to land on the side it started on?
- What is selection bias and why does it corrupt empirical economic data?
- What landing bias did the study find across 350,757 coin flips, and how did it compare to the theoretical prediction?
- What statistical step, when skipped, causes spurious clusters of activity to appear in fMRI scans?
- Why did a dead salmon appear to show brain activity in response to photographs of human emotion?