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> I just tossed the koin a few times. Here's the sequence it's landed in so far:

> T H T T T T T

> How likely do you think it is to land heads on the next toss? You might look at that sequence and be tempted to think a heads is "due", i.e. that it's more than 50% likely to land heads on the next toss.

> That's irrational. Right?

> Wrong. Given your evidence about koins, you should be more than 50% confident that the next toss will land heads; thinking otherwise would be a mistake.

Given the evidence I have about koins (the sequence) I would actually make the assumption that it's most likely for the next toss to be T. And that koins is not a fair coin.

In a more gambler relevant context, if a roulette ball ends on red 10 times in a row. It's more likely to end on red on the 11th time as well, the implication being that the roulette is not fair.



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