How we can put a check on our brain's pattern-recognition in order to see the world more clearly, by emresoyer
When we encounter a lot of data, random details sometimes cluster together to form patterns that we recognize.
One trick to avoid any illusions would be to challenge our immediate intuition and look for disconfirming evidence.While circling Mars in 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 spacecraft took pictures of its surface. One image created quite a bit of controversy: It’s impossible not to immediately see the pattern on the image. It’s right there.
Randomness can generate many easily detectable patterns. If I tossed a coin thousands of times, we’d possibly observe streaks of 10 heads or tails in a row. But that wouldn’t mean that I have some special coin tossing powers. Which of these patterns are in our control? Which can we predict with accuracy? Which are mainly random? Knowing these answers is essential to make decisions with the right expectations.Given that we typically interpret things in ways that fit our prior beliefs and personal preferences, one trick to avoid any illusions would be to challenge our immediate answers to these questions and look for reliable evidence to the contrary.
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