• MathiasTCK@lemmy.worldOPM
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    4 days ago

    Things like: #Apophenia

    "The tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.[17] The following are types of apophenia:

    Clustering Illusion , the tendency to overestimate the importance of small runs, streaks, or clusters in large samples of random data (that is, seeing phantom patterns)."