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The belief that past random events affect future probabilities. Statistics' nemesis.
Drives gambling addiction, bad investment strategies, and the lottery industry's profits.
This fallacy keeps casinos in business and explains why people buy lottery tickets with 'cold' numbers that haven't come up recently.
"Evolution gave you pattern recognition. Marketing gave you patterns to recognize. Guess who's winning?"