What Tim Harford thinks about mathematics
Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Tim Harford has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingA tossed coin is more likely to land on the same face it started on than on the opposite face.
Their wordsPersi Diaconis, celebrated both as a mathematician and magician, has found that a coin toss is, in general, a 51/49 proposition in favour of finishing the same way up that it started.
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