apophenia

Why so few, given the raging apophenia among our scientific elite?

The human tendency to see patterns that do not actually exist is called apophenia.

Another is called 'apophenia,' which means that people tend to perceive patterns even when there are none.

Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, seeing patterns in random data.

It was named after the medical condition of seeing patterns in seemingly random data, Apophenia.

More general forms of erroneous pattern recognition are pareidolia and apophenia.

The central theme throughout the novel involves the natural human propensity to search for meaning with the constant risk of apophenia.

The title derives from the protagonist's obsession with the number 23, a phenomenon often described as apophenia.

Psychologists refer to this tendency as apophenia.

In statistics, apophenia is a "Type 1 error," a false alarm, the experience of seeing patterns in meaningless data.

Joker attributes this to apophenia.

See also: apophenia.

The author's preoccupation with semiotics and apophenia in Pattern Recognition is carried over in the sequel.

This fallacy is the philosophical/rhetorical application of the multiple comparisons problem (in statistics) and apophenia (in cognitive psychology).

In short, "apophenia" is a misnomer that has taken on a bastardized meaning never intended by Conrad when he coined the neologism "apophany."

As with most numerological claims, the enigma can be viewed as an example of apophenia, selection bias, and confirmation bias.

Pareidolia is a type of apophenia involving the perception of images or sounds in random stimuli, for example, hearing a ringing phone while taking a shower.

He developed an innovative library of statistics functions for C, named Apophenia, and has written a textbook on statistical computing, Modeling with Data.

This attempt at finding patterns within a world where coincidence does not exist possibly involves apophenia if a person's perspective attributes their own causation to a series of events.

Their second album APOPHENIA was released in November 2005.

Likewise, in psychology and sociology the term apophenia is used for the mistaken detection of a pattern or meaning, in what is actually random or meaningless data.

As narrative is one of humanity's major cognitive instruments for structuring reality, there is some common ground between apophenia and narrative fallacies such as hindsight bias.

The attempt to foretell the future, present, or past by finding patterns in animal entrails, tossed sticks, or by picking random passages from a holy text are further examples of apophenia.

The conspiracy-obsessed superhero The Question is accused of suffering from apophenia in the episode "Double Date," of the animated TV series Justice League Unlimited.

Followers of the seemingly random clips seek connections and meaningfulness in them but are revealed to be victims of apophenia as the clips are just edited surveillance camera footage.