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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-05 04:44 PM
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17. Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections....
in random or meaningless data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

It's a normal facet of human experience. Our brains are wired to identify patterns. False positives are a natural outcome. You could say that the scientific method was designed as a methodology for weeding out these false positives.
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