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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Mind, I'm Erika Beras. Got a minute?
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2 .Rolling five straight sevens at the craps table.
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3 .Sinking eight consecutive three-point basketball shots.
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4 .Making the light at the intersection every day all week.
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5 .Such streaks are all easily within the bounds of statistical probability.
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6 .But when they're happening, people believe that they have what is often called the hot hand.
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7 .Our brains are hardwired to find such patterns and meaning.
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8 .And now researchers find that other primates also appear to believe in streaks.
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9 .Scientists created computer games that could be played by rhesus monkeys.
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10 .Some of the games were programmed to show clear patterns, that is, they were fixed.
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11 .But one game gave random results.
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12 .The monkeys played more than a thousand rounds, for rewards.
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13 .They did well in the games with the obvious patterns.
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14 .But in the random game, the monkeys made moves indicating that they nevertheless expected patterns to occur.
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15 .The study is in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition.
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16 .Evolution clearly favors the ability to find patterns, foraging for food and noticing where bunches of fruits occur is a great survival tool.
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17 .But believing in a hot hand, especially in casinos, can make monkeys out of all of us.
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18 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Mind. I'm Erika Beras.
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