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Is this an example of the Ludic Fallacy?While betting on a roulette game where the croupier was employing a special throwing technique which resulted in a bias towards certain numbers, would I be committing a ludic fallacy if I solely took into account hypothetical mathematical probability?
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| asked on Thursday, Jan 15, 2015 06:30:58 PM by Bruno | |
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This is a tricky one. Being skeptical of such "throwing techniques," I would have to say no. However, if throwing techniques we actually demonstrated to significantly affect the outcomes, and one ignored this known fact, then yes.
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| answered on Friday, Jan 16, 2015 06:21:29 AM by Bo Bennett, PhD |
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