Psychology / Unit 1 Psych 0078 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Illusory Correlation
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The idea
An illusory correlation is a relationship a person perceives between two variables that the data do not show.
In practice
Someone is certain their headaches follow rainy days, having noticed the matches and forgotten the misses.
Where people slip
Illusory correlations feel like observations because they are built from real memories, selectively kept.
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