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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.
"Statistically speaking, you're probably wrong about statistics. And about speaking, for that matter."