Statistics Saturday: Some Outcomes of Coin Tosses

• Called tails, came up heads
• Called heads, came up tails
• Called tails, coin bounced out of control and rolled under Dig-Dug
• Called heads, came up heads
• Called tails, coin flopped onto shoe and got lost in the laces
• Came up heads before anyone could finish calling
• Called heads, came up tails, swore they called heads instead
• Called tails, cool friend snatched coin out of the air
• Got into argument about who gets to call and who gets to toss, get into heated round of rock-paper-scissors to decide tossing and calling order.
• Called tails, came up heads, agreed to extend this to three-out-of-five
• Called heads, two-tailed fox emerges from video game to ask what your problem with him is
• Called heads, came up tails, swore they called heads instead; a brawl ensues
• Called heads, landed sideways when it got caught in a crack in the floorboards, had temporarily the power to be Dick York and also read minds
• Called heads, power blipped out mid-toss and couldn’t see the coin
• Called tails, came up heads, agreed to extend this to four-out-of-seven
• Called tails, noticed was two-headed coin, causing accusations of cheating; a brawl ensues
• Called heads, tossed coin, never came down because you forgot you were on top-secret spaceship flying to Mars
• Called tails, tossed coin, never came down because you forgot you were on top-secret spaceship flying to Mars
• Called heads, came up it was the Mount Rushmore national-parks quarter so arguably both sides are heads and it isn’t even a cheating coin; a brawl ensues
• Called heads, came up tails

Reference: Computers In Spaceflight: the NASA Experience, James E Tomayko.