stackyFACTSNo, a red number on the roulette wheel is not 'due' to hit just because black came up six times in a row.
No, a red number on the roulette wheel is not 'due' to hit just because black came up six times in a row. The gambler's fallacy is the bizarre, highly expensive cognitive glitch where humans believe that past independent events somehow influence future probabilities. The coin has no memory, and the universe has no sense of fairness, but your brain stubbornly insists that a streak of bad luck statistically owes you a jackpot.
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