On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 11:49:19PM -0700, SJS wrote:
> > I have also heard a salesman say that every "no" is one step closer to a
> > "yes".
>
> Gambler's fallacy.

It depends how literally you take the comment.  It would be fallacy to think
that if tails comes up on the last 4 coin flips, that somehow there is some
magical force increasing the chances of the next flip being heads.

The meta-point here is that if Tracy and salespeople press on and don't quit
that eventually they'll come up heads.

Chris


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