While rock, paper, scissors is usually seen as a game of luck, a scientist has revealed what they claim is a surefire way to beat your friends. According to Dr Denise Moerel, a cognitive scientist at Western Sydney University in Australia, the trick is to forget about the previous round. In a piece for The Conversation, Dr Moerel explains that thinking too hard about what’s just happened can stop you from being ‘truly random’. In experiments, ‘random and unpredictable’ players who didn’t take notice of past choices – either theirs or their opponent’s – tended to be victorious. According to...
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