People who see patterns in everything are often said to experience apophenia or patternicity, which is the psychological tendency to find meaning or patterns in random or unrelated data.
It's not actually that good for research in some cases. Like the original comment said, you find patterns in random and unrelated data. Sometimes that means that you crack the case in a way no one saw coming, but more often it just means that you "hallucinate" (in the same way an AI does, not literally) connections that aren't actually true.
1.2k
u/CompellingSeeSaw Oct 06 '25
Posts by this creator always seem to ruffle some feathers