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I'll gladly take a 75% chance of getting the average
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And yes, the chance of getting two heads or two tails in a row is 25%. Just google it. The idea is you don't want two tails. It's better to get any other combination. So if you have 3/4 combinations you desire, what percentage is that?
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If you get two heads, you did not get the average.
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It is highly improbable to get the exact average in any small data set.
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It is in fact more likely to get the exact average in a small data set than a large data set. If you flip two coins there is a 50% chance of the exact average. If you flip four coins there is a 25% chance of the exact average. If you flip 10 coins there is a 0.9% chance of the exact average.