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 === The Last Thing you Try ===
-Why is it that the last thing your try always works? (No, really, some people think this!)
+Why is it that the last thing your try always works? (No, really, some people wonder about this!)
 Skinner performed an experiment involved taking a hungry pigeon, placing it in a box and releasing a food pellet at a random time. The pigeon received a food pellet while performing some action; and so, rather than attributing the arrival of the pellet to randomness, it repeated its action, and continued to do so until another pellet fell. As the pigeon increased the number of times it performed the action, it gained the impression that it also increased the times it was "rewarded" with a pellet, although the release in fact remained entirely random.<ref>Esther Inglis-Arkell, ''How pigeons get to be superstitious.'' (2011-01-31) Gizmodo http://io9.gizmodo.com/5746904/how-pigeons-get-to-be-superstitious</ref>

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 In ''The Believing Brain'' (2011), Shermer wrote that humans have "the tendency to infuse patterns with meaning, intention, and agency", which he called "agenticity".<ref>Michael Shermer, ''Why Do We Need a Belief in God.'' (2011-08-19) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQO4y2bueAM&feature=BFa&list=PLCD25E214FF0BCD3B&index=2</ref>
-=== Pattern recognition ===
+=== [[Pattern Recognition]] ===
-Pattern recognition is a cognitive process that involves retrieving information either from long-term, short-term or working memory and matching it with information from stimuli. However, there are three different ways in which this may happen and go wrong, resulting in apophenia.<ref>Psychgology 24, ''Pattern Recognition and Your Brain.'' (2016-03-21) http://www.psychology24.org/pattern-recognition-and-your-brain/</ref> The novel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_Recognition_(novel) Pattern Recoginition] by WIlliam Gibson has a central theme involving the examination of the human desire to detect patterns or meaning and the risks of finding patterns in meaningless data
+[[Pattern Recognition]] is a cognitive process that involves retrieving information either from long-term, short-term or working memory and matching it with information from stimuli. However, there are three different ways in which this may happen and go wrong, resulting in [[apophenia]].<ref>Psychgology 24, ''Pattern Recognition and Your Brain.'' (2016-03-21) http://www.psychology24.org/pattern-recognition-and-your-brain/</ref> The novel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_Recognition_(novel) Pattern Recoginition] by WIlliam Gibson has a central theme involving the examination of the human desire to detect patterns or meaning and the risks of finding patterns in meaningless data
 === The Last Thing you Try ===

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 Why is it that the last thing your try always works? (No, really, some people think this!)
-Skinner performed an experiment involved taking a hungry pigeon, placing it in a box and releasing a food pellet at a random time. The pigeon received a food pellet while performing some action; and so, rather than attributing the arrival of the pellet to randomness, it repeated its action, and continued to do so until another pellet fell. As the pigeon increased the number of times it performed the action, it gained the impression that it also increased the times it was "rewarded" with a pellet, although the release in fact remained entirely random.<ref>Esther Inglis-Arkell, ''How pigeons get to be superstitious.'' (2011-01-11) Gizmodo http://io9.gizmodo.com/5746904/how-pigeons-get-to-be-superstitious</ref>
+Skinner performed an experiment involved taking a hungry pigeon, placing it in a box and releasing a food pellet at a random time. The pigeon received a food pellet while performing some action; and so, rather than attributing the arrival of the pellet to randomness, it repeated its action, and continued to do so until another pellet fell. As the pigeon increased the number of times it performed the action, it gained the impression that it also increased the times it was "rewarded" with a pellet, although the release in fact remained entirely random.<ref>Esther Inglis-Arkell, ''How pigeons get to be superstitious.'' (2011-01-31) Gizmodo http://io9.gizmodo.com/5746904/how-pigeons-get-to-be-superstitious</ref>
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 Why is it that the last thing your try always works? (No, really, some people think this!)
-Skinner performed an experiment involved taking a hungry pigeon, placing it in a box and releasing a food pellet at a random time. The pigeon received a food pellet while performing some action; and so, rather than attributing the arrival of the pellet to randomness, it repeated its action, and continued to do so until another pellet fell. As the pigeon increased the number of times it performed the action, it gained the impression that it also increased the times it was "rewarded" with a pellet, although the release in fact remained entirely random.<ref>Esther Inglis-Arkell, ''How pigeons get to be superstitious.'' http://io9.gizmodo.com/5746904/how-pigeons-get-to-be-superstitious</ref>
+Skinner performed an experiment involved taking a hungry pigeon, placing it in a box and releasing a food pellet at a random time. The pigeon received a food pellet while performing some action; and so, rather than attributing the arrival of the pellet to randomness, it repeated its action, and continued to do so until another pellet fell. As the pigeon increased the number of times it performed the action, it gained the impression that it also increased the times it was "rewarded" with a pellet, although the release in fact remained entirely random.<ref>Esther Inglis-Arkell, ''How pigeons get to be superstitious.'' (2011-01-11) Gizmodo http://io9.gizmodo.com/5746904/how-pigeons-get-to-be-superstitious</ref>
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-*Merriam Webster,  ''3rd International Dictionary.'' : the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas)
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 What psychologists call [[Apophenia]] - the human tendency to see connections and patterns that are not really there—gives rise to conspiracy theories
 ==Context==
-=== "Agenticity" ===
+=== Agenticity ===
 In ''The Believing Brain'' (2011), Shermer wrote that humans have "the tendency to infuse patterns with meaning, intention, and agency", which he called "agenticity".<ref>Michael Shermer, ''Why Do We Need a Belief in God.'' (2011-08-19) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQO4y2bueAM&feature=BFa&list=PLCD25E214FF0BCD3B&index=2</ref>