Suppose you had somebody guess how a sequence of 10 coin flips would play itself out (e.g. ,THTHHHTHHT).If people did this task,they would tend to ____ the number of alternations,due to their reliance on the ______ heuristic.

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The representativeness heuristic is the tendency to judge the probability or likelihood of an event by how similar it is to a typical example or prototype. In the context of coin flips, people may assume that a sequence with a lot of alternations (e.g. HTHTHTHTHT) is more representative of random chance than a sequence with fewer alternations (e.g. TTTTHHHHHH). Therefore, they would tend to overestimate the number of alternations in a sequence of coin flips.

Suppose You Had Somebody Guess How a Sequence of 10