It's a Coin Flip.

In an article about Reinventing the Dinosaur:

Once, Tapster and a colleague were filming pygmy marmosets (palm-size monkeys with lion-like manes) in the rain forests of Ecuador book I had as slowly as possible," Tap-ster said. Then he decided to flip a coin a thousand times and record the out-comes, to see if it was in fact true that the coin would land on heads half the time. "It was four hundred and nine-ty-nine," he said, recalling that he was devastated that it wasn't five hundred. That level of devotion to verification has served him well.

I mean some super-smart science guy gets credit for flipping a coin and yet d I'm supposed to be some sort of joke?!?!?!?!

I reckon I topped out in the sciences the year before, when for my “science project” I flipped a coin 500 times to determine if the theory of probability was true. Answer? “YES.” I got a single piece of posterboard; on one side I wrote “HEADS: 249” and the other side was “TAILS: 251.” Hey, I didn’t wanna make it too obvious that I hadn’t bothered actually flipping the coin by putting 250 on each side, so I mixed it up a bit. I should’ve won an Oscar the next day when Mr. Young tried to insinuate that I hadn’t worked very hard on the project with the cleverly disguised critique of “It looks as if you did almost zero work on this.” To which of course I flipped out, indignation raging. “what?!?!? I flipped a coin 500 TIMES!!!!” I guess after that experience, I soured on science. What can I say.