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The Dangers of Apophenia: Not Everything Happens for a Reason
Apophenia : A tendency to perceive correlations between unrelated things, because your mind can only deal with tiny sample sizes and assuming things are correlated creates easy/comforting explanations of how the world works.
from 100 Little Ideas by Morgan Housel
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For all the benefits of visual puzzles, there’s a danger. A big one. It’s the aforementioned apophenia, the tendency to see hidden things that are not there, to find a nonexistent pattern in the noise.
from The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. Jacobs
For all the benefits of visual puzzles, there’s a danger. A big one. It’s the aforementioned apophenia, the tendency to see hidden things that are not there, to find a nonexistent pattern in the noise.
from The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. Jacobs