What is apophenia? Have you ever looked at a cloud and thought it looked like an animal? Or have you ever looked at the moon and thought there was a face on it? These are examples of apophenia and it is when our brains see meaningful patterns in unrelated things. Statisticians call this a type 1 error, or false positive. In this video, we will be going through 4 types of apophenia (pareidolia, gambler's fallacy, clustering illusion, and confirmation bias) to better understand this psychological phenomenon.

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