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Direct linkFalk, Ruma; Lann, Avital Lavie – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2015
As the number of independent tosses of a fair coin grows, the rates of heads and tails tend to equality. This is misinterpreted by many students as being true also for the absolute numbers of the two outcomes, which, conversely, depart unboundedly from each other in the process. Eradicating that misconception, as by coin-tossing experiments,…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistics, Misconceptions, Mathematical Concepts
