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Meaning of "gamblers' fallacy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GAMBLERS' FALLACY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GAMBLERS' FALLACY

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Gamblers' fallacy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GAMBLERS' FALLACY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of gamblers' fallacy in the English dictionary

The definition of gamblers' fallacy in the dictionary is the fallacy that in a series of chance events the probability of one event occurring increases with the number of times another event has occurred in succession.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GAMBLERS' FALLACY

gambier
Gambier Islands
gambir
gambist
gambit
gamble
gambler
Gamblers Anonymous
gambling
gambling debts
gambling den
gambling hell
gambling house
gambling joint
gambling losses
gambling man
gambo
gamboge
gamboge tree

WORDS THAT END LIKE GAMBLERS' FALLACY

articulacy
base rate fallacy
base-rate fallacy
fallacy
immaculacy
inarticulacy
inviolacy
lacy
naturalistic fallacy
pathetic fallacy
prelacy

Synonyms and antonyms of gamblers' fallacy in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «gamblers' fallacy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GAMBLERS' FALLACY

Find out the translation of gamblers' fallacy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gamblers' fallacy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gamblers' fallacy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

赌徒´的谬论
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

falacia jugadores ´
570 millions of speakers

English

gamblers´ fallacy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जुआरी ´ भ्रम
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

مغالطة المقامرين /
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Ошибочность Наемников
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

falácia ´ jogadores
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জুয়া খেলোয়াড়দের ভুলত্রুটি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´ erreur de joueurs
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kejahatan penjudi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Spieler ´ Trugschluss
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ギャンブラー´誤謬
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

도박꾼 ´ 사기 야
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gambler ´fallacy
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

sai lầm con bạc ´
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சூதாட்டக்காரர்களின் வீழ்ச்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जुगारांना ´चुकीची कल्पना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kumarbazların aldatmacası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fallacia giocatori d´azzardo ´
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przesąd hazardzistów /
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Хибність Найманців
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

eroare jucatorii /
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πλάνη παίκτες »
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dobbelaars ´ n dwaling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spelarnas felslut
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gamblers ´ feilslutning
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gamblers' fallacy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GAMBLERS' FALLACY»

The term «gamblers' fallacy» is used very little and occupies the 184.104 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GAMBLERS' FALLACY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gamblers' fallacy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAMBLERS' FALLACY»

Discover the use of gamblers' fallacy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gamblers' fallacy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cognitive Psychophysiology: Event-related Potentials and the ...
Now, furthermore, when we talk about subjective probability, it seems to me that when the subject operates on the gamblers' fallacy that in his subjective experience he indeed expects a change after a long run of the same stimulus. And what ...
Emanuel Donchin, 1984
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Theological Incorrectness : Why Religious People Believe ...
Having deeply rooted expectations about how the world ought to work leads to other interesting psychological effects regarding the belief in luck. Two common cognitive mistakes that humans make collectively constimte the "gamblers fallacy, " ...
D. Jason Slone Assistant Professor of Religious Studies University of Findlay, 2004
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Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking
To suppose otherwise is to commit the gamblers' fallacy. The preceding account of how to understand the law of averages assumes that the coin is fair and that the tosses are independent. Suppose those assumptions are false. Then would it  ...
Merrilee Salmon, 2006
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Invitation to Critical Thinking
Ad ignorantiam Explain your answer: Invincible ignorance False inference to best explanation Correlation to cause Post hoc ergo propter hoc Overlooking a common cause Causal oversimplification Slippery slope Gamblers' fallacy Ad ...
Joel Rudinow, Vincent E. Barry, 2007
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Capital Market Anomalies: Explained by Human ?s Irrationality
That in turn results to wrong decisions.15 This heuristic involves several expressions, which are gamblers fallacy, also known as Monte-Carlo-Effect or law of small numbers, conjunction fallacy, conditional probability fallacy and ecological ...
Irini Varvouzou, 2013
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How to Dominate $1 and $2 No Limit Hold 'em
We're quite sure the "live straddle" player thinks that way; he wants to make his raise first before he sees his cards that are "due" and to act last for the same reason. While we occasionally may be drawn out on because of Gamblers' Fallacy, ...
Sam O'Connor, 2007
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You Bet!: An A-Z of Poker, Casinos and Lotteries
See also Gambler's Fallacy,Gambler's Ruin, House Edge, Negative Expectation Game, Quit whileyou're ahead. Gamblers Fallacy 'The house doesn't beatthe player. It giveshimthe opportunity tobeat himself.' (Nick 'The Greek' Dandalos) The ...
Liam O'Brien, 2014
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Acquiring a Conception of Mind: A Review of Psychological ...
Contrary to this simple statistical fact, the gamblers' fallacy is that if, for example, a sequence of five tails has just occurred, then there is increased probability that the next flip will give heads. Actually, that is not so, and the probability of heads ...
Peter Mitchell, 1996
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Preference, Belief, and Similarity: Selected Writings
This misconception produces two systematic errors. First, it leads many people to believe that the probability of heads is greater after a long sequence of tails than after a long sequence of heads; this is the notorious gamblers' fallacy. Second ...
Amos Tversky, Eldar Shafir, 2004
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Advances in Swarm Intelligence, Part II: Second ...
... real decision-making; secondly, some scholars conduct their researches from the perspective why gambler's fallacy and hot hand exist; the third research area is to prove the mechanism results in generation of gamblers fallacy and hot hand  ...
Ying Tan, Yuhui Shi, Yi Chai, 2011

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GAMBLERS' FALLACY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gamblers' fallacy is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Gambler's Fallacy' Makes Life Unfair
The gamblers' fallacy played a large role here. Under various versions of the experiment, loan officers were 5 to 8 percentage points less likely ... «Bloomberg View, Jan 15»
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Does loyalty make you lucky? Some shoppers seem to think so
This attitude is not identical to the gamblers' fallacy belief that they're “on a streak” or “due” for a certain outcome, but it definitely has something ... «ConsumerAffairs, Sep 14»
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Gambling Games: Winning Streaks Are Real, But Being Lucky …
Source: Xu J, Harvey N. Carry on winning: The gamblers' fallacy creates hot hand effects in online gambling. Science Direct. 2014. Comment. «Medical Daily, May 14»
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The 'How' of the Hot Hand
Or, as the scientists put it, "The gamblers' fallacy created the hot hand." The paper says the findings could have implications for financial traders ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 14»
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Why We Can't Stop Gambling
Other research has shown that problem gamblers are prone to these misconceptions known as “gamblers' fallacy.” Problem gamblers make up ... «Discovery News, Apr 14»
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Are You Not Entertained: Week Three National Action
Don't take the gamblers' fallacy that OSU is "due." This is a bad team that lost to a bad FCS school and an equally bad Hawaii squad. Utah is ... «Roll 'Bama Roll, Sep 13»
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How to win the jackpot - four times
This is known as the gamblers' fallacy. There is, in fact, no pattern to these games. There is no way you can fiddle the odds, as generations of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 11»

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