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The paper linked was also based on 27 observable coin flips, all made with the same coin-flipping machine. Out of those 27, 18 were between .500 and .504 in probabilities - and the paper concludes by saying that the "the classical assumptions of independence with probability 1/2 are pretty solid".

Edit: Actually, 21 out of the 27 flips were in the 0.5 - .505 range.




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