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Littlewood’s law of miracles states that in the course of any normal person’s life, miracles happen at a rate of roughly one per month. The proof of the law is simple. During the time that we are awake and actively engaged in living our lives, roughly for 8 hours each day, we see and hear things happening at a rate of about one per second.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc (Latin: 'after this, therefore because of this') is an informal fallacy that states "Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X." It is a fallacy in which an event is presumed to have been caused by a closely preceding event merely on the grounds of temporal succession.
The frequency illusion (also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon) is a cognitive bias in which a person notices a specific concept, word, or product more frequently after recently becoming aware of it. The name "Baader–Meinhof phenomenon" was coined in 1994 by Terry Mullen in a letter to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. [1]
A coincidence is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances that have no apparent causal connection with one another. [2] The perception of remarkable coincidences may lead to supernatural , occult , or paranormal claims, or it may lead to belief in fatalism , which is a doctrine that events will happen in the exact manner of a ...
For a sample of only 1,000 independent trials, however, the probability that the event does not happen in any of them, even once (improbability), is only [5] 0.999 1000 ≈ 0.3677, or 36.77%. Then, the probability that the event does happen, at least once, in 1,000 trials is ( 1 − 0.999 1000 ≈ 0.6323, or ) 63.23%. This means that this ...
It is another coincidence that one of Kemp’s fellow jurors is a retired police officer (J.K. Simmons) who defies courtroom rules and begins investigating on his own.
Once more, Carpenter calls the events a “coincidence” — but this time, she’s also referring to the fact that her ex and his partner have broken up yet again.
A study has shown counselors and psychoanalysts were less likely than psychologists to agree chance coincidence was an adequate explanation for synchronicity, while more likely than psychologists to agree that a need for unconscious material to be expressed could be an explanation for synchronicity experiences in the clinical setting.