Gambler's Falacy. Getting (un)lucky a few times in a row means nothing.
Only when you start to see a repeating pattern of consecutive fails/HQs over thousands of synths, can you speak of a potential glitch in the RNG.

Quote Originally Posted by Daniel_Hatcher View Post
Until SE comes out and says, nope it has no effect then people will still face it because, why not?
SE devs HAVE actually given an answer about this topic during a dev panel at one of the Vanafests, but it basically went along the lines of "*snicker* If you want to believe that, we're not stopping you *smirk*"

But even if they flat out said that direction doesn't matter, people will still do it. It's a religious thing.