ILLUSORY CORRELATION: MISGUIDED THINKING
An illusory correlation happens when we mistakenly over-emphasize one outcome and ignore the others. Hundreds of psychology studies have proven that we tend to overestimate the importance of events we can easily recall and underestimate the importance of events we have trouble recalling. The easier it is to remember, the more likely we are to create a strong relationship between two things that are weakly related or not related at all.
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