Suppose You Flip a Coin and It Comes Up Heads

question 18

Multiple Choice

Suppose you flip a coin and it comes up heads five times in a row.What do you think the next outcome will be? Most people feel that the probability is high that the coin will come up tails.This refers to ________.

• A) a fundamental attribution error
• B) the gambler's fallacy
• C) Murphy's law
• D) the base rate fallacy

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Definitions:

Self-Contradiction

A statement that inherently contradicts itself, asserting and denying the same thing, thereby rendering it logically impossible.

Conditional

A statement that establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between two propositions.

Disjunct

Used in logic to refer to an either/or proposition where two options are presented and at least one of them must be true.

Disjunction

A logical operator that results in truth if at least one of its components is true.