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clustering illusion

The tendency to erroneously consider the inevitable streaks or clusters arising in small samples from random distributions to be non-random
Event Cognitive Bias Q178647

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
cognitive bias, apophenia[2]
Part of
psychological terminology[3]
Contributing factor of
hot-hand fallacy, gambler's fallacy[5][6]
Different from
Texas sharpshooter fallacy[7]
Has cause
Representativeness heuristic[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en clustering illusion cs Iluze shlukování de Clustering-Illusion es ilusión de agrupación es clustering illusion fa توهم خوشه‌بندی fr illusion des séries he אשליית האשכולות ja クラスター錯視 ja クラスター錯覚 pl Iluzja grupowania pt Ilusão de agrupamento ru Иллюзия кластеризации uk Ілюзія кластерів zh 集群錯覺 zh-hant 叢集錯覺 zh-hant 集羣錯覺
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Freebase ID
/m/02nw0k
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2779844188
Quora topic ID
Clustering-Illusion
RationalWiki ID
Clustering_illusion

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🔗 Connections
Contributing factor of 2
gambler's fallacy, hot-hand fallacy
Instance of 2
cognitive bias, apophenia
Different from 1
Texas sharpshooter fallacy
Has cause 1
Representativeness heuristic
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Summary

clustering illusion is a cognitive bias[1].

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