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It's well known in the security industry / compsci that humans are are very bad at generating, and recognizing, random numbers. I can't recall if there's a name for this bias; there's the clustering illusion but that's about recognizing random numbers, not trying to generate them.
This paper tries to analyze why this is hard for humans to do.