One of my pet peeves is the tendency to read meaning into everything we do. It isn’t that there isn’t a reason behind our behaviours. It’s just that the reasons are either banal (basic instincts and human motivation) or are so prone to both misinterpretation and over-interpretation that most attempts to explain them will be [...]
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Spurious correlations and you
One of the interesting things in life is in how we make use of observations. We all try to understand why things happen and when we observe a connection – or more accurately, what we BELIEVE is a connection – we feel as if we have gained a sense of control over our lives. Knowing [...]
