why our brains struggle to believe in randomness
- Written by Milad Haghani, Senior Lecturer of Urban Risk & Resilience, UNSW Sydney

We are surrounded by random events every day. Will the stock market rise or fall tomorrow? Will the next penalty kick in a soccer match go left or right? Will your lottery ticket finally win?
Often, we experience these events not as isolated occurrences but as part of a sequence. In these sequences, our brains crave certainty and patterns....