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by ahwvd37js 1515 days ago
From the original paper [1].

> Paradoxically, participants with a scientific background may perform worse at producing random sequences, thanks to a common belief among them that the occurrence of any string is as statistically likely as any other (a bias deriving from their knowledge of classical probability theory), which further justifies controlling for Field of education, simplified as humanities v. science.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...

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How in the world did this get through peer review
> Finally, the variable Paranormal Belief was included as it has been related to RIG performance in previous studies.