RNG manipulation experiment

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I previously read an article about random number generation manipulation which was quite fascinating:
"Count population profiles in engineering anomalies experiments" by Jahn et al. 1991,
in which they showed a very slight deviation of electronic coinflips towards the desired outcome of an operator focusing on the machine.

Since something like this is easy to test yourself I wrote a simple python script to do so, here it is:


The script keeps flipping coins (casting RNG values to 0 or 1) and outputs the average over all coins flipped so far every 100000 throws. I was consistently able to make the result go above or below 0.5 by a deviation of about 0.001-0.002 for extended periods of time while concentrating on it. Give it a try.