[eDebate] Coin flips

[Doyle Srader]

A way to slow down tournaments but make them more fair:

"John von Neumann suggested a way to flip a suspect coin and produce fair results: Flip it twice.

"Tails-heads decides in favor of one party, heads-tails the other. The two results are equally likely, even with a biased coin. (If it comes up heads-heads or tails-tails, flip it twice again.)"

http://www.futilitycloset.com/page/42/

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Doyle Srader, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication
Northwest Christian University