begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Mon, May 05, 2008 at 04:30:30PM -0700: > 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.
Thus demonstrating that fallacies can actually be useful. -- In for a penny, in for a pound. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
