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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The university of Illinois stuck a piece of bread (butter side out) on the back of a cat and dropped it several hundred times from a first floor window. So, we have 4 conditions, paws first, butter first, side of cat first. Statistically (there being two sides to the cat) the cat landing on its side should have come up 1:2. It didn't. The cat always landed on its feet.
Then they decided that the cat was cheating, using some ancient, innate, imprinted memory of how to twist when tethered to bread and butter.
When they tied its legs and tail together they discovered that statistics won the day, butter. feet, side ratio of 1:1:2.
It only goes to prove that there are ties, damn ties and statistics!
THIS may help!
I got 6/ 10 times butter side down.
Even if the odds were 50/50 it's still more likely not to land exactly 5 times.
Another variable is the whether you drop it out of your hand or from a plate. The trajectory is different.
Can we discount the chance of it landing on its side? What if it's Garlic bread?
Not a lot of people know this but if you cut out the square piece of carpet where the buttered toast has landed (it usually leaves a mark) then some very bizarre unexplained phenomena takes place.
1. That square piece of hallowed carpet when dropped from a height always lands alternately as coloured side up then uncoloured side up. Never fails its always alternate
2. If you fling that square piece of carpet away it can boomerang back to you despite its square shape.
3. If the carpet is placed near potted plants, they will flower well during the summer.
4. Despite the butter stain, tests with high performance liquid chromatography shows no presence of butter on the bread.
I dont have a carpert, toaster or butter in the office at the moment or I would try this....... You should repeat is some 50-100 times to make it statistically significant.....
One possible reason may be, the rough side of the toast (the unbuttered side) may create more turblence and therefore a decrease in pressure and so cause the slice to rotate a little in the air and therefore always land butter side down.......