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4: Randomness, What Happens Without Sleep, and Stardew Valley

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Rock Paper Scissors - Is There an Ideal Strategy?

Humans are so bad at being random that there is an optimal strategy for rock paper scissors. When someone wins in the game, they're more likely to continue with whatever they chose. The gambler's fallacy says if you flip a coin over and over and it lands heads, you know, next time it's got to be tails,. You're like, do for tails. And our need to find order can blind us to the truth that some things in the world are the way they are for reason.

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