Gist: Falling for the Gambler’s Fallacy




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Summary: If the roulette wheel keeps stopping on green, it’s bound to stop on red soon, right? It must be time for another round of “Is That Bullshit?” <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/maria-konnikova">Maria Konnikova</a> returns to debunk our ideas about probability and gambling. Konnikova writes for the <em>New Yorker</em> and is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143109871/?tag=slatmaga-20"><em>The Confidence Game</em></a>.  <br><br>In the Spiel, the Russian connection.