Cognitive scienceBayes TheoremHumansUncertaintyProbabilityDecision Making
Bayesians Commit the Gambler's Fallacy.
Kevin Dorst
Published: 202610.1111/cogs.70171
Abstract
The gambler's fallacy is the tendency to expect random processes to switch more often than they actually do-for example, to assign a higher probability to heads after a streak of tails. It's often taken to be evidence for irrationality. It isn't. Rat…
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