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jjk166last Saturday at 6:11 PM1 replyview on HN

> Doesn’t change the fact that each coin toss is still 50/50.

That assumes a fair coin. The fact is you don't know what the odds were of getting heads or tails for that particular coin, all you know is that you got 3/4 heads. And in this analogy, a few hundred coins have every been made, in maybe a dozen styles, none of which have been fair, so you have no good reason to believe that this particular coin should have 50/50 odds of landing heads up.


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d1sxeyeslast Sunday at 5:08 AM

But the idea we're exploring is that the coin is fair (i.e. the 1/1000 estimate is correct, and the Apollo missions were unlucky).

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