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The Gambler’s fallacy

The Gambler’s fallacy

The Gambler’s fallacy is a psychological error, also referred to as the fallacy of the maturity of chances. It is the belief that deviations from expected behaviour revert to mean. This is often referred to as ‘the law of averages’, I prefer to call it ‘The flaw of averages’

It layman’s terms it’s the feeling your mind gets when 15 reds pop up on the roulette table. There can’t be a sixteenth can there? So you bet black. In reality, …

11/12/2012 | By | Reply More
Doing a Moonee

Doing a Moonee

Tuned in to the William Reid stakes this morning at Moonee Valley in Australia to check on the market and progress of the best sprinter in the world at the moment, Black Caviar. I doubt if many people outside of the UK have paid much attention to this horse but having seen the odds on it get shorter in each successive race I think it’s obvious something special is going on here.

Even at the remarkably short odds she was …

25/03/2011 | By More
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