Show PROF PULLS PENNIES r DEDUCTS DREAR DATA t Educator Spends Years Hauling Hauling- Coppers Out OutI I t of Can in Fifty-Fifty Fifty Tests n ATHENS ATHENS Ga The AP-The The underlying law of or fifty-fifty fifty is o. o k says Professor Pope Hill the penny experimenter of the University of ot Georgia Geor Geor- gia ita after alter tests test testis u is Professor Hill says that however hes he's been somewhat misrepresented being called a penny flipper when he actual actually y has been drawing t pennies ennies from a can an entirely dif dif- 2 lerent ferent process process so so he says T Several years ago th the professor I placed l ced pennies in a can A hun hun- dred Ired of them were dated 1919 and the he remainder 1920 They were weighed on chemical balances and paired alred according to weight For each 1919 penny of a given weight there was one 1920 penny of the same weight The pennies pennic were thoroughly mixed nixed and one coin was drawn and its ts date recorded It was returned to o the can the pennies stirred and another coin withdrawn and its date recorded This was done times Heres Here's part of at the result Of the draws came out 1920 and were 1919 The experiment the professor said gives very strong evidence that the underlying law of half halt and half halt actually actually ac ac- ac does work out in practice |