Comment on: How the result of a single coin toss can turn out to be 100 heads

Abstract

Ferrie and Combes [PRL 113 120404 (2014)] produce a classical measurement scheme that supposedly exhibits `anomalous' weak values. I show that their model is flawed due to an incorrect definition of the weak value. As a consequence their claims are invalid.

arXiv commentIncludes a brief response to the the published reply [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 118902 (2015)]

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