Tendencies to see meaningful patterns, clusters or streaks in random data, including the clustering illusion, illusory correlation and the hot-hand fallacy. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article describes seeing pattern in randomness. Every member sits in the Psychology Atlas as its own page with a definition, cited sources and links to related effects, so the group works as a reading path through Pattern and Streak Illusions rather than as a claim that the members share one cause. Where scholars disagree about how an effect should be classified, the member page says so.
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Wikipedia: Clustering Illusion
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The clustering illusion is the tendency to erroneously consider the inevitable "streaks" or "clusters" arising in small samples from random distributions to be non-random.
Wikipedia: Illusory Correlation
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In psychology, illusory correlation is the phenomenon of perceiving a relationship between variables (typically people, events, or behaviors) even when no such relationship exists.
Wikipedia: Hot Hand
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The hot hand (also known as the hot hand phenomenon or hot hand fallacy) is the putative tendency for an athlete to have streaks of success higher than their average performance.
Texas sharpshooter fallacy, Wikipedia
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The Texas sharpshooter fallacy is the statistical fallacy of inferring meaning from what is essentially a random distribution of data points.
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