A coin has been tossed six times, and has landed on "heads" five out of the six times. Haley comments that the coin must not be a fair coin, but Zhanna says that this conclusion is unwarranted. Haley has fallen victim to the

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The small-sample fallacy occurs when someone draws conclusions from a sample that is too small to be statistically significant. In this case, Haley is making a judgment about the fairness of the coin based on only six tosses, which is not a large enough sample to determine if the coin is truly biased.

A Coin Has Been Tossed Six Times, and Has Landed