Number of coin tosses needed to establish bias

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How many consecutive tails would you need to establish that a coin is biased ($P_{heads} < 0.5$)

Null: $P_{heads} = p = 0.5$

So need $(1-p)^n < 0.05$ to establish bias at 95% confidence one sided

$\implies 0.5^n < 0.05$

$\implies n > \frac{\log(0.05)} {\log(0.5)}$

$\implies n \ge 5$

So it seems like we only need 5 tails to conclude that coin is biased?? That seems very low. Is there something I'm missing?