The "Bad at Randomness" Fallacy

In this post I want to talk about something that I'm calling the "Humans are bad at randomness" fallacy. If you've read any discussions on a game with random mechanics, you've almost certainly seen a conversation that goes something like this: Person 1: I just had happen to me multiple times in a row! Something has to be broken with the RNG. Person 2: Nah, that's just how randomness works. Humans…