Questions tagged [fallacy]

I'm a grad student in psychology, and as I pursue more and more independent studies in statistics, I am increasingly amazed by the inadequacy of my formal training. Both personal and second hand experience suggests that the paucity of statistical…

Regarding the gamblers fallacy I have 2 questions: Is it rational for getting more surprised after each time for example a six side dice comes 6? How is it that a dice rolling 6 ten times changes the probability of dice fairness to us? Let me…

There are a few things that are heavily used in the practice of statistics, data analysis, etc. and that form the common canon of education, yet everybody knows they are not exactly true, useful, well-behaved, or empirically supported. So here is…