by Andrew | Sep 16, 2026 | Mind & Behaviour
Five heads in a row. Surely the next flip has to be tails. It feels reasonable. Balanced, even. As if probability has noticed the uneven score and is about to tidy up. That feeling has a name: the gambler’s fallacy. It is the mistaken belief that a sequence of...
by Andrew | Sep 16, 2026 | Mind & Behaviour
You missed. The result is a loss. And yet a small voice says: “That was close.” In many parts of life, close is useful information. A tennis ball landing just outside the line might tell you something about your next shot. A nearly correct answer can reveal a gap in...
