Apophenia
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Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.
Statistical Biases
/ Patternicity
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Explore 2 cognitive biases related to this topic.
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Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.
Statistical Biases
/ Patternicity
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The clustering illusion is the tendency to erroneously consider the inevitable 'streaks' or 'clusters' arising in small samples from random distributions to be non-random.
Statistical Biases
/ Hot hand fallacy (related)