Wikipedia 10K Redux

Reconstructed by Reagle from Starling archive; see blog post for context.

Gamblers_Fallacy

The idea that past results of a random event influence future results. For example, if in a

sequence of tossings of a coin (assuming the coin to be perfectly symmetric), we have had 20 tails in a

row, that's doesn't make any more probable that the next result will be head, the probability of head or

tail remains 50/50.