You’re flipping a coin and it lands heads five times in a row. You think: “Wow, it must be due to land tails soon.” Another day, you notice a slot machine showing no wins in a streak, so you feel convinced the next pull will be a winner. In both cases, your mind says that because something happened a bunch of times, the opposite is ‘due.’ But with real randomness, each flip or spin is its own new event. That feeling—that your luck is about to change—can be surprisingly strong. Take the quiz and find out why your brain tricks you into thinking it controls randomness.
