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It’s in the paper:

> The standard model of coin flipping was extended by Persi Diaconis [12] who proposed that when people flip a ordinary coin, they introduce a small degree of ‘precession’ or wobble—a change in the direction of the axis of rotation throughout the coin’s trajectory. According to the Diaconis model, precession causes the coin to spend more time in the air with the initial side facing up. Consequently, the coin has a higher chance of landing on the same side as it started (i.e., ‘same-side bias’).

[12] Diaconis P, Holmes S, Montgomery R. Dynamical bias in the coin toss. SIAM Review 2007; 49(2): 211–235.




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