On NPR today, Robert Siegel talks with Columbia statistics professor Andrew Gelman. Gelman is the co-author of the book Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks, which includes an age-old statistics experiment that demonstrates how people misunderstand probability when it comes to the coin toss.

They also talk about the fact that the Superbowl coin flip has come up ‘Tails’ for 10 straight years now!

You can listen to the story on NPR from here.

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