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Suppose you have a coin that is equally likely to be fair (50% heads) or biased (75% heads). You then flip the coin 20 times and see 11 heads.

Without doing any math, which do you now think is more likely- that the coin is fair, or that the coin is biased?

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Foundations of Probability in R

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