Skeptophilia

There are two distinct, but similar-sounding, cognitive biases that I've written about many times here at Skeptophilia because they are...

I've posted before about the phenomenon of dart-thrower's bias; the tendency of humans to notice outliers, and therefore give them m...

I remember a couple of years ago noticing something odd.  While eating breakfast on work days, I'd finish, and always give a quick glanc...

Yesterday I was in my car on the way to an appointment in Ithaca, and I was listening to some classical music on satellite radio.  The annou...

In 1960, Carl Jung coined the term synchronicity  in his book of the same name, and defined it as follows: How are we to recognize acausa...

There are two distinct, but similar-sounding, cognitive biases that I've written about many times here at Skeptophilia because they are ...

Today the following happened: In the last few months I've been watching episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot , and last night I wa...

One of the hardest biases to overcome is dart-thrower's bias , which is the tendency to notice outliers and ignore all of the background...

I've blogged before about "miraculous thinking" -- the idea that an unlikely occurrence somehow has to be a miracle simply bas...