Lifehacker's podcast: what is apophenia and why we notice connections that aren't really there

Apophenia is the tendency to see relationships in a random set of data. It is with her that they associate, for example, belief in mystical forces, conspiracy theories and superstition. We talk about the dangers of this phenomenon and a little about its benefits in the new issue of the Lifehacker podcast.

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