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The Dangers of Apophenia: Not Everything Happens for a Reason
in which we look for patterns where none exist.”13
Michael J. Mauboussin • Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities (such as a sequence of six girls) appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or of someone’s intention. We do not expect to see regularity produced by a random process, and when we detect what appears to be a rule, we quickly reject the idea that the pr
... See moreDaniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
In the last ten years, pattern recognition has become a cultural activity. You see that on the bad end, like QAnon, and on the more fun end with the pervasiveness of trend forecasting.