By Jon Wilner | jwilner@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group and Mark Emmons | Mercury News, Bay Area News Group Everyone knows the flip of a coin is a 50-50 proposition. Only it’s not. You can beat the odds. So says a three-person team of Stanford and UC-Santa Cruz researchers. They produced a provocative study that turns conventional wisdom, well, on its head for anyone who has ever settle
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