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Value of coincidences.
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RE: Value of coincidences.
March 26, 2016 at 7:21 pm
(March 26, 2016 at 3:39 pm)robvalue Wrote: Everything that happens is "a coincidence" if viewed a certain way. People irrationally apply extra significance to events, it seems to be a natural human trait.

And obviously there's confirmation bias; no one comments on the billions of things happening all the time that they don't consider a coincidence.

The word for that is Apophenia. 

[source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia]
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Value of coincidences. - by Socratic Meth Head - March 26, 2016 at 3:09 pm
RE: Value of coincidences. - by robvalue - March 26, 2016 at 3:39 pm
RE: Value of coincidences. - by Socratic Meth Head - March 26, 2016 at 3:52 pm
RE: Value of coincidences. - by Cato - March 26, 2016 at 4:15 pm
RE: Value of coincidences. - by RozKek - March 26, 2016 at 7:21 pm
RE: Value of coincidences. - by robvalue - March 27, 2016 at 2:08 am
RE: Value of coincidences. - by Kitty Galore - March 26, 2016 at 4:01 pm
RE: Value of coincidences. - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - March 26, 2016 at 4:19 pm
RE: Value of coincidences. - by KevinM1 - March 26, 2016 at 4:21 pm
RE: Value of coincidences. - by H.sapiens - March 26, 2016 at 4:42 pm
RE: Value of coincidences. - by brewer - March 26, 2016 at 5:58 pm
RE: Value of coincidences. - by Minimalist - March 26, 2016 at 7:30 pm
RE: Value of coincidences. - by Cato - March 27, 2016 at 2:20 am
RE: Value of coincidences. - by ApeNotKillApe - March 26, 2016 at 7:34 pm
RE: Value of coincidences. - by emjay - March 26, 2016 at 8:53 pm
RE: Value of coincidences. - by robvalue - March 27, 2016 at 2:30 am
RE: Value of coincidences. - by J a c k - March 27, 2016 at 3:22 am
RE: Value of coincidences. - by Joods - March 27, 2016 at 3:11 am
RE: Value of coincidences. - by robvalue - March 27, 2016 at 3:26 am
RE: Value of coincidences. - by J a c k - March 27, 2016 at 3:29 am
RE: Value of coincidences. - by robvalue - March 27, 2016 at 3:31 am
RE: Value of coincidences. - by FebruaryOfReason - March 27, 2016 at 6:08 am
RE: Value of coincidences. - by J a c k - March 27, 2016 at 1:15 pm
RE: Value of coincidences. - by Pope Markoff Chaney - March 28, 2016 at 5:55 am

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