학술논문
Numbers Defy the Law of Large Numbers
Document Type
Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Reports - Descriptive
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Language
English
ISSN
0141-982X
Abstract
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, should be incorporated early on into learning the law of large numbers.