Edit. I hit "Post it" and immediately understand what's the problem with this code. Can this node please be considered for deletion? Sorry :-(

use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';

my $len = 100_000;
my $str = join '', map { int( rand 2 ) ? 0 : 1 } 1 .. $len;

say +( $str =~ tr/1/1/ ) / $len;

for ( 1 .. 1_000_000 ) {
    my $pos = int rand $len;
    my $chr = substr $str, $pos, 1; 
    substr( $str, $pos, 1, int( rand 2 ) ? 0 : 1 ) if $chr
}                

say +( $str =~ tr/1/1/ ) / $len;
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$ perl 171126.pl 
0.4988
0.00312
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Removing the if $chr (or replacing it with e.g. if time) gives expected output (i.e. "1"s percentage stays around .5). It's SSCCE from larger experiment, never mind what this useless fragment is about.

$ perl -v

This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 0 (v5.26.0) built for x86_64-li
+nux-thread-multi
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
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