i cant remember wha tthe word is
but there's a word for when people attribute human or even animal physical characteristics to patterns in light or shadows or smoke or what not
like the face on mars, or a lot of pictures of 'ghosts'
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like the face on mars, or a lot of pictures of 'ghosts'
'official fan of b3ta' ben goldacre
has a piece about more general seeing of patterns in data which aren't there today:
www.badscience.net/?p=404
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www.badscience.net/?p=404