Original Source Material Student Version Psychologists have found that people tend to forget that a head is just as likely to be followed by a head as by a tail; therefore they have too many reversals, and too few strings of heads, in their successive guesses. If a fair coin toss comes up heads thirty times in a row, the next toss is still equally likely to be heads or tails. References: Dixit, A. K.,

Answer / Explanation:

The question is incomplete because the purpose of the question is to identify what type of plagiarism is involved. However, the original source statement was provided but that of the student was not provides.

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Original Source Material

Psychologists have found that people tend to forget that a head is just as likely to be followed by a head as by a tail; therefore they have too many reversals, and too few strings of heads, in their successive guesses. If a fair coin toss comes up heads thirty times in a row, the next toss is still equally likely to be heads or tails.

References:

Dixit, A. K., & Nalebuff, B. J. (1991). Thinking strategically:

Student Version

Consider an individual trying to produce a random series of heads or tails decisions without any external aid. People aren't good at being random; “therefore they have too many reversals, and too few strings of heads, in their successive guesses” (Dixit & Nalebuff, 1991, p. 184).  This example helps to illustrate the difficulty of producing truly random data.

Now, the question here is to:

Identify which of the following is true for the Student Version above?

Word-for-Word plagiarism

 Paraphrasing plagiarism

This is not plagiarism

Thus:

The correct answer in respect to the student version is that this is not plagiarism because the original source was referenced and also the words used in the student version are not word-for-word. This then holds that the student version is not plagiarized.

answer; the above statement is (true);