Paul Artes a écrit : > DeaRs, > i'm looking for some references on a statement as follows: > "Humans are good at spotting trends and patterns in data, but they are also > good at spotting those patterns where none really exist". This is not > verbatim but there must be some scholarly work on this. I can't remember > where I came across it - perhaps I dreamed it up? Help, anyone?
our eyes have some tendency to believe that randomness <=> equiprobability. And by contraposition, non-equiprobability <=> non-randomness. quite easy to see "a posteriori" patterns in non-equiprobable, but alas perfectly random, samples. In french, in 2D this effect is sometimes called "effet rateau". ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
