Matt at the Harvard Social Science Statistics Blog provides a link to the blog "You are not so smart" with an emphasis on its newest post discussing randomness and causality. While it is impossible to debunk every pattern someone draws out of coincidences (disconfirming evidence is rarely enough), it provides a good read of the historic coincidences and the false patterns people create from them – including the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy, Nostradamus, and the Titan(ic). A new blog has entered the RSS reader.
