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Patterns

Everything on this site about patterns — each one naming the study behind it.

You see patterns in random data that simply do not exist.
The 1985 Gilovich, Vallone, and Tversky study focused on basketball shooting performance, but utilized the known psych…
Your brain creates meaning out of literal noise.
Klaus Conrad originally coined 'apophenia' in 1958 to describe a clinical symptom of the early stages of schizophrenia…
You expect patterns where there is only randomness.
The gambler's fallacy is a well-established cognitive bias defined as the belief that past independent events influenc…