"He saw quite astonishing behavior on the part of the birds; **they developed an extremely sophisticated rain-dance type of behavior in response to their ingrained statistical machinery**. One bird swung its head rhythmically against a specific corner of the box, others spun their heads counterclockwise; **literally all of the birds developed a specific ritual that progressively became hardwired into their mind as linked to their feeding**. "**This problem has a more worrying extension; we are not made  to view things as independent from each other**. When viewing two events A and B, it is hard not to assume that A causes B, B causes A, or both cause each other. Our bias is immediately to establish a causal link" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[fooled-by-randomness]], [[story-bias]], [[causation]], [[making-decisions]], [[statistics]], [[data-analytics]] **Source** -- [[202410121132 - B - Fooled by Randomness]]