Sentences with phrase «as apophenia»
We are hungry to intuit serial sequences everywhere, even where there are none — a condition known as apophenia, which is linked to gambling and conspiracy theories.
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The combination of apophenia (the tendency to see patterns in random data), confirmation bias (the tendency to focus on evidence that is in line with our expectations or favoured explanation) and hindsight bias (the tendency to see an event as having been predictable only after it has occurred) can easily lead us to false conclusions,