Inverse gambler's fallacy
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Inverse gambler's fallacy
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The inverse gambler's fallacy, named by philosopher Ian Hacking, is a formal fallacy of Bayesian inference which is an inverse of the better known gambler's fallacy. It is the fallacy of concluding, on the basis of an unlikely outcome of a random process, that the process is likely to have occurred many times before. For example, if one observes a pair of fair dice being rolled and turning up double sixes, it is wrong to suppose that this lends any support to the hypothesis that the dice have be
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Formal fallacy of Bayesian inference
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_gambler%27s_fallacy
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2023-08-13T07:30:55Z
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