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Old Thu Sep 10, 2009, 10:58am
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Originally Posted by sseltser View Post
The coin toss is a random event. It is still correlated to the outcome of overtime. "Random" is not the opposite of "correlated".

This also doesn't imply that the coin toss is rigged. It only says that the winner of the coin toss (which is a fair game) is more likely to win the game.
Agreed, my point was to respond to an earlier poster who claimed that showing a significantly increased win percentage didn't show whether there was causation or correlation. If the coin toss is random and correlated, then it must be that the result of the coin toss actually causes the correlation.
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