Ah, yes! I knew about this dynamic before (it explains my own social paranoia), but I never made the connection to conspiracy "theories" for some reason.
That's a good point about how seeing patterns that aren't there as more conducive to survival than the reverse. And here I thought superstitious people were more numerous just because they had more kids...
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Date: 2008-12-02 17:18 (UTC)From:That's a good point about how seeing patterns that aren't there as more conducive to survival than the reverse. And here I thought superstitious people were more numerous just because they had more kids...