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Illusory Correlation

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An illusory correlation is a relationship a person perceives between two variables that the data do not show.

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Someone is certain their headaches follow rainy days, having noticed the matches and forgotten the misses.

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Illusory correlations feel like observations because they are built from real memories, selectively kept.