Christine has been following the state lottery for over a year,and she has a record of the number of times every number has been selected.She is ready to invest $1000 in lottery tickets with the same six-number combination on each ticket.She is going to choose the six numbers that have occurred the least frequently in the last year because she is sure they will be picked eventually.In this case,Christine is showing evidence of
A) the availability heuristic.
B) the base rate fallacy.
C) the gambler's fallacy.
D) the conjunction fallacy.

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The gambler's fallacy is the belief that a random event is more likely to occur after a long series of failures. In this case, Christine is assuming that the numbers that have occurred the least frequently in the past are more likely to be picked in the future, which is not true.

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