Seeing patterns in random data. Statistics' most persistent hallucination.
Fuels gambling addiction, conspiracy theories, and the belief in 'hot streaks' in sports and investing.
Humans are so bad at recognizing randomness that truly random sequences look 'too clustered' to us, while we think fake 'random' patterns are more realistic.
"Congratulations! Your brain just demonstrated the same reasoning that kept us in trees for millions of years."