Beware The Gamblers Fallacy (And 6 Other Shorts)
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 Published On May 1, 2024

They're films containing things that you didn’t know you needed to know, starting with the Gambler’s Fallacy. It’s a deep-seated cognitive bias that causes us to make the wrong decisions, time after time.

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