With 100 coin tosses (a polling sample of 100), the statistical error is 5% -- too big to be comfortable. There is a simple rule for such errors
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100 Coin Tosses |
400 Coin Tosses |
Error 5% |
Error 2.5% |
Shape is still a Gaussian |
1000 Coin Toss Error a factor of Sqrt(10) Smaller than 100 Tosses |