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Lucky Numbers Blues

There are many gambler's fallacies the statisticians say each roll of the roulette table is an independent event Yet the gamblers believe that if for example there were ten red numbers in a row that the next one should be black right A statistician in the U,K. decided to prove that the gamblers were all delusional in insisting that there were patterns in the endless spin of the wheel and that it was more of a curve that the noise of random numbers after thousands of spins recorded on a computer the pattern was clear there was a bell shape curve with an upswing and a downswing to the data an early experiment in chaos theory but with a practical application if you are on a winning curve keep going until the curve turns into a losing curve then walk away and you might be a winner according to science but they have yet to be able to prove/disprove that lucky numbers exist for you and me mine was always 32 and when it pops I swore that my lucky number came up just a fluke according to science another iron clad rule the regression to the mean the curve may go up and may go down but in the end it regresses to the mean and that means the house always wins

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