Karen believes in the "gambler's fallacy." This is the erroneous belief that if you flip a coin, for instance, and get five heads in a row, you then have a greater than 50% chance to get a tail on the next flip of the coin. The best way to modify this misconception is to:
a. provide Karen with more instruction about the laws of probability.
b. tell Karen that there is an independent chance to get a head or a tail each flip.
c. give Karen a coin and some recording paper and flip coins to collect data.
d. tell Karen she holds a misconception and sometime later she may be ready to remedy her knowledge.
c
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