Do you ever use coinflips to decide what you want to do?
I sometimes do and I did just a few minutes ago as I’m typing this. I decided 5 out of 7, whether or not I was going to go to a chinese buffet today. The coin decided 5-3, that I will. Then I wanted the coin to decide if I’m going thrifting today and with a landslide of 0-5, it didn’t want me to.
Since I rarely have coins handy, I use a clock (if I don’t know the current time, obviously): “If the minutes are odd, yes. Even? No.” (Eg. 2:53 = yes, :54 = no).
I usually use it to make small decisions where I want to do the comparatively bad thing but I know I should be doing the good thing. For example, I slept poorly and don’t want to bike to work. Flip a coin to see if I get to take the train instead. I always do 3/5 as well.
I don’t think I’ve used a coin flip to decide anything in my life since my parents occasionally used one to decide something between my brother and I as kids (such as who would get first turn on something). Every time I thought to do a coin flip for decision making as a younger person, I’d find myself leaning toward and secretly hoping for one outcome and think to myself…this is dumb, let’s just do the one I’m already leaning toward. Now it’s not even something I consider doing when making decisions. I also go literally months, sometimes years, between touching coins now, so I’d have to ask Google to flip a coin for me or something.
In group settings I always go for the dice and we assign numbers to what we will be doing as a group. It helps when we can’t decide what to do because we all want different things, such as where to go for dinner.
I do. If it’s heads I always tell the person to keep the coin. It’s thier lucky coin. But don’t put it in your pocket. It’ll get mixed in with all the other coins and become just another coin.
Yeah, if I’m really genuinely even on a choice and none of my standard tie-breakers apply. Following through is no issue, as I am legit torn, so have no strong preference.
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