mercoledì 13 aprile 2016

Apophenia - You are Not So Smart by David McRaney

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ApopheniaRead more at location 1132
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THE MISCONCEPTION: Some coincidences are so miraculous, they must have meaning. THE TRUTH: Coincidences are a routine part of life, even the seemingly miraculous ones. Any meaning applied to them comes from your mind.Read more at location 1135
Note: IL RUOLO DELLA FORTUNA Edit
Screenwriters and novelists have discovered over the years a number of tropes that you tend to understandRead more at location 1137
Note: SCRITTORI Edit
Every story needs a strong protagonist with whom you can identify.Read more at location 1139
Note: SCENEGGIATURA Edit
Early on, the protagonist will save someone without having to, and you start to like him or her.Read more at location 1141
Note: IL BUONO Edit
On the other side, you need a dastardly antagonist who harms someone for no reason, a person who ignores the rules and wants only to satisfy him-Read more at location 1141
Note: IL CATTIVO Edit
Just when it seems as though the protagonist will fail, he or she overcomes whatever has been in the way, in order to defeat the antagonist, sometimes even saving the world in the process.Read more at location 1143
Note: PRIMA IL BUONO SEMBRA PERDERE POI VINCE Edit
Joseph Campbell made it his life’s work to identify the common mythology in all humans, the stories you and everyone else know in your hearts. He called the outline above the hero’s journey,Read more at location 1146
Note: IL VIAGGIO DELL EROE Edit
the hero’s journey is a monomyth that plugs into your mind like a key into a lock.Read more at location 1148
Note: MITI E NARRATIVA Edit
Maths, science, and logic are much harder to contemplate than social situations.Read more at location 1150
Note: LOGICA E NARRATIVA Edit
Just as with television and film, your memory tends to delete the boring parts and focus on the highlights—the plot points.Read more at location 1151
Note: MEMORIA: UNA STORIA DI HIGHLIGHT Edit
In a mystery like The Da Vinci Code, or in a television series like Lost, where mysterious happenings are at the center of the plot, clues pop up that turn out to be connected in some strange way. You can’t help but be intrigued by the patterns slowly coalescing.Read more at location 1153
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You find yourself compelled to keep turning the pageRead more at location 1155
When you do this in the real world, it is called apophenia.Read more at location 1156
Note: CONNETTERE I PUNTINI Edit
Apophenia is an umbrella term that encompasses other phenomena, like the Texas sharpshooter fallacy and pareidolia.Read more at location 1157
you draw a circle around a series of random events and decide there is some meaning in the chaos that isn’t really there. In pareidolia, you see shapes like clouds or tree limbs as people or faces.Read more at location 1158
Apophenia is refusing to believe in clutter and noise, in coincidence and chance.Read more at location 1159
Note: IL RIFIUTO DELLA FORTUNA Edit
Apophenia most often appears in your life when you experience synchronicity.Read more at location 1160
Note: SINCRONIA Edit
The clock reads 11:11 P.M. The next time you look, it reads 12:12 A.M. A brief sense of wonder turns your headRead more at location 1162
Note: OROLOGI Edit
You might find it amazing you share the same birthday as a dozen of your favorite celebrities, even though at any given time you share your birthday with about 16 million people.Read more at location 1168
Note: COMPLEANNI Edit
You might see a person who wins the lottery three times in a row as having an extra helping of magical luck, but multiple lottery winners are actually rather common.Read more at location 1171
Note: LOYTERIA Edit
In this way, you can see apophenia isn’t always a bad thing. You need a sense of meaning to get out of bed, to push forward against the grain.Read more at location 1177
Note: IL LATO POSITIVO DELL APOPHENIA Edit
Your mind is preorganized to notice order, even when the order is defined by your culture and not your synapses.Read more at location 1179
Note: CULTURA E SINAPSI Edit
In general, you prefer nice round numbers that correspond to the decimal system you’ve grown accustomed to using.Read more at location 1182
Note: NUMERI DECIMALI Edit
The law of truly large numbersRead more at location 1185
Note: LEGGE DEI GRANDI NUMERI Edit
The law says in a large sample of occurrences, many coincidences will emerge.Read more at location 1185
J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, Littlewood’s Miscellany.Read more at location 1188
Note: IL LIBRO Edit
He said the average person is alert for about eight hours every day, and something happens to the average person about once a second. At this rate, you will experience 1 million events every thirty-five days. This means when you say the chances of something happening are one in a million, it also means about once a month. The monthly miracle is called Littlewood’s Law.Read more at location 1189
Note: IL MIRACOLO MENSILE Edit
Apophenia isn’t just seeing order in chaos, it is believing you were destined to see it.