Sally believes if she just keeps playing the lottery, eventually she will win.Sally is suffering from the law of large numbers bias.

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Sally is actually experiencing the gambler's fallacy, which is the mistaken belief that if something happens more frequently than normal during a given period, it will happen less frequently in the future, or vice versa, in situations where events are truly random and independent of each other. The law of large numbers is a principle that describes the result of performing the same experiment a large number of times, stating that the average of the results obtained from a large number of trials should be close to the expected value, and will tend to become closer as more trials are performed.

Sally Believes If She Just Keeps Playing the Lottery, Eventually