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“the clustering illusion refers to the tendency to erroneously ...
... “streaks” or “clusters”, caused by a human tendency to underpredict the amount of variability likely to appear in a small sample of random or semi-random data due to chance.”— http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/clustering_illusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apophenia http://en.wikipedia.org ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apophenia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/clustering_illusion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pareidolia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/interpretation_(logic). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/synchronicity.

more on momentum and the hot hand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/clustering_illusion. http://skepdic.com/clustering.html. http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/ten-things-about-momentum-in-the-postseason/. http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/weblog/c31/ ...

Clustering Illusion
The clustering illusion occurs where patterns are .

seven thinking errors you probably make
... known more commonly under “hindsight is 20/20“ this bias causes people to see past results as appearing more probable than they did initially… 3) [clustering illusion -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/clustering_illusion] [...]

Bad clusters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion Regardless of the exact type of graph, the creation of clear, understandable visualizations of data is of fundamental importance in all branches of science. ...

Pro-football-reference.com blog » This post is untitled
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion. Makes you think of those scenes in “A Beautiful Mind.” Posted on 29-Jun-06 at 9:11 pm | Permalink; Pro-football-reference.com blog » Home Field Advantage said: ...