How to avoid falling for the ‘gambler’s fallacy’ - BBC Ideas
Psychologist and author Steven Pinker explores apophenia - the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.
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I used to get weird coincidences happen once in a while. My my shrink at the time said it was just coincidence. I dunno. I have told this story before but anyway. I woke up one Sunday morning and a guy who worked in the same company as me popped into my head. My waking thought. I hardly knew him. Just to say hello. No particular contact with him at all. The company closed and this was about 7 years later.
Drove over town and stood in line at a coffee shop and who should be standing in line right in front of me. We said hello and had to remind each other of our names. I mentioned that I had just thought of him that morning. He didn't find it as fascinating as me.
Drove over town and stood in line at a coffee shop and who should be standing in line right in front of me. We said hello and had to remind each other of our names. I mentioned that I had just thought of him that morning. He didn't find it as fascinating as me.
Auric Goldfinger to James Bond:
Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.
Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.
Very interesting - thank god I believe in randomness.How to avoid falling for the ‘gambler’s fallacy’ - BBC Ideas
Psychologist and author Steven Pinker explores apophenia - the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.www.bbc.co.uk
