Randomness

Pareidolia – the psychological phenomenon of perceiving patterns in randomness

Past events will always look less random than they were (it is called the hindsight bias). I would listen to someone’s discussion of his own past realizing that much of what he was saying was just backfit explanations concocted ex post by his deluded mind.

How I am the fool of all fools, except that I am aware of it.

The economist proudly detects “regularities” and “anomalies” in data that are plain random.