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gambler's fallacy

mistaken belief that more frequent chance events will lead to less frequent chance events, or vice versa, to balance out

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independent events

irrelevant conclusion

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Behavioral finance Causal fallacies Cognitive biases Cognitive inertia Gambling mathematics Gambling terminology Relevance fallacies Statistical paradoxes

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