Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "Would You Take This Bet?" video.

@legitablelegend Possibly gambling that people would be to ashamed to take money from a homeless guy. Your friend may not have been but if he's playing the numbers, enough people might that he'd come out ahead.
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@veritasium Even if you fully assured them, that doesn't mean the instinct isn't still there. It would be interesting if you tried this with the elderly who tend to be more susceptible to scams. If they are more willing to play, it could be an indication that it's that instinct at play.
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@Zuignap Actually, over time, one person is likely to be up over the other proportional to the square root of the number of coin flips (random walk theory)
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@Zuignap True. Just pointing out that it doesn't statistically average back to zero (though it can, of course). A common misconception.
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