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My next door neighboor has three girls and is pregnet once again and this one is bound to be a boy. This statement illistates what issue with people thinking of probablity.  1Gambleers fallacy  2. conception fallacy  3. mutually exclusive 4. Exhaustivity

My next door neighboor has three girls and is pregnet once again and this one is bound to be a boy. This statement illistates what issue with people thinking of probablity.  1Gambleers fallacy  2. conception fallacy  3. mutually exclusive 4. Exhaustivity

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My next door neighboor has three girls and is pregnet once again and this one is bound to be a boy. This statement illistates what issue with people thinking of probablity. 

1Gambleers fallacy 

2. conception fallacy 

3. mutually exclusive

4. Exhaustivity

 

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Gambleers fallacy is when a event already occurred many times then people believe that it'll not occur again.  And they choose that opposite event will occur. 

When any outcome depends on any other outcome that has been already occurred then that is called mutually exclusive events. 

A set of events which covers the whole Probability space is called exhaustivity. 

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