Woman's Own

DAWN NEESOM MIND OF MY OWN

FLIPPIN’ BRILLIANT

My generation are a bunch of tossers. Seriously. Because flipping a coin in the air to decide something depending on the heads or tails result was something we just did. In today’s increasingly cashless society, tossing a coin is dying out, aside from kicking off football matches. But did you realise that it’s not as 50/50 as you think? After flipping coins over 350,000 times, experts found that the side that is originally facing up returns to that same position 50.8% of the time. That might not sound significant but, evidently, statistically it makes a huge difference. So now you know,

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