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'''Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.''' | [[File:Cloud face.jpg|alt=Cloud face|thumb|'''Figure 1'''. A random distribution of water vapour is seen as a face.]] | ||
'''Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.''' A common example of this is seeing the image of a face in a cloud ('''Figure 1'''. Seeing patterns in random data). | |||
