Tonya was astonished when she flipped a coin 10 times and it came up heads each time. She believed that this was her lucky day a

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Tonya was astonished when she flipped a coin 10 times and it came up heads each time. She believed that this was her lucky day a

nd spent $10 on lottery tickets. Tonya's belief is an example of our tendency to perceive ____, which is an error in thinking.

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Paha777 [63] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-13T06:12:11+03:00

Answer:Order in random events

Explanation:

Tonya' belief is an example of our tendency to perceive order in random events. People try to find a pattern in a random event to get a meaningful idea. Though the data is random but people try to relate it with their life and consider this as intuition.

People generally believe in their intuition more than they should so they commit a mistake by doing so.