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It’s All Connected

What links creativity, conspiracy theories, and delusions? A phenomenon called apophenia.
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In statistics, a problem akin to apophenia is a Type I error, or false positive. It means believing something is real when it isn’t, based on a misleading pattern in the data. The equal and opposite misstep, a Type II error, involves attributing a true relationship to chance.

Oh, something snarky about the delusional idea of voices coming from dental fillings seems appropriate here...