Science Is Getting Involved With Rock, Paper, Scissors Strategy?

Science just figured out a hack for winning Rock, Paper, Scissors, and it’s easy to remember: Remember to forget (???). A team in Australia had people play 15,000 rounds of Rock, Paper, Scissors against a computer, and scanned their brains to see how they made decisions. In general, they found we tend to choose rock the most. But the actual hack only comes into play if you TIE the first round. They found trying to be smart and base your next choice on what happened in the last round, actually makes you LESS likely to win. They suggest you try to be as random as possible. The rub is, it’s really hard for our brains to ignore that data and be truly random with it.