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The tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.
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Clustering Illusion - the tendency to overestimate the importance of small runs, streaks, or clusters in large samples of random data.
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Illusory Correlation - the tendency to inaccurately perceive a relationship between two unrelated events.
- False associations may be formed due to Saliency bias or because certain features captured one’s Attention
- It may involve heuristics.
- It can also involve Confirmation Bias. We notice and give greater credence to evidence that fits our existing beliefs.
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Pareidolia - the tendency to perceive a vague and random stimulus as significant.