14/06/2024
Apophenia
The tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. The following are types of apophenia:
* Clustering illusion, the tendency to overestimate the importance of small runs, streaks, or clusters in large samples of random data (that is, seeing phantom patterns).
* Illusory correlation, a tendency to inaccurately perceive a relationship between two unrelated events.
* Pareidolia, a tendency to perceive a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) as significant, e.g., seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the Moon, and hearing non-existent hidden messages on records played in reverse.