You are employed as a commission-based sales clerk for a cosmetics retail store. You know that on average; exactly 50 percent of the customers that...

23. You are employed as a commission-based sales clerk for a cosmetics retail store. You know that on average; exactly 50 percent of the customers that enter your store will make at least one purchase. Thus far this morning, you have waited on eight customers without making a single sale. You are convinced that the next customer you wait on will buy something. This belief is known as: 

A. Aversion to ambiguity

B. The law of small numbers

C. Anchoring and adjusting

D. Gambler's fallacy

E. False consensus