Can You Tell Random and Non-Random Apart?
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6 min readApr 7, 2019
Apophenia or the “ tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things”. Humans it turns out are quite rubbish at telling things that are random apart from things that are not. In fact we sometimes see patterns where there are none and for others they can say something is random but have no scientific way of explaining it. You see this most often when people think that lottery numbers “1…
