Apophenia (/æpoʊˈfiːniə/) is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. Apophenia has also come to describe a human propensity to unreasonably seek patterns in random information, such as can occur while gambling.
Clustering illusion
Illusory correlation
Pareidolia
Gamber's fallacy
Confirmation bias
The tendency to overestimate the importance of small runs, streaks, or clusters in large samples of random data (that is, seeing phantom patterns).
A tendency to inaccurately perceive a relationship between two unrelated events.
A tendency to perceive a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) as significant, e.g., seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon, and hearing non-existent hidden messages on records played in reverse.
A tendancy to see patterns that don't exist relating to gambling.
A tendancy to focus on data that confirm our hypotheses and ignore data that disproves it.
