Nothing To See Here: 39th Banker Dead in 13 Months, Third this Year

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58. You know how it is when you stare at a dark spot on a large white surface?

The mind starts to play tricks on you. It gives you the illusion that the spot is moving. That's because our pattern-recognition system is aghast at the possibility that something isn't occurring so it pretends that something is.

It's the same thing when you look at isolated statistics for too long. You become convinced -utterly convinced- that a pattern is there because you don't shift your attention to the larger picture.

And it's the same with the anti-vaxxers. They look at the minuscule number of individuals who happened -through sheer coincidence- to have contracted autism shortly after receiving a vaccine. And they see a pattern that isn't really there.

It's the same information processing system all around, IMO.
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