Apophenia by Claire Romain

“…The Apophenia project raises curiosity and challenges the way we perceive certain objects that form part of our daily life. …”
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From apophenia to epiphany by Ignacio Castillo Ulloa

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Effects of Apophenia on Multiple-Choice Exam Performance by Stephen T. Paul, Samantha Monda, S. Maria Olausson, Brenna Reed-Daley

“…Two experiments were conducted to examine the degree to which apophenia (perceiving patterns in random data) might negatively influence multiple-choice exam performance among college students. …”
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From Apophenia to Epiphany: Making Planning Theory-Research-Practice Co-constitutive by Ignacio Castillo Ulloa

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Media In The Age Of Apophenia: Why The Study Of Media Art And Theory Is More Important Today Than Ever by Bernadette Wegenstein

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Pareidolic and Uncomplex Technological Singularity by Viorel Guliciuc

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The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy by Clare Hammoor, Evelyn Walker

“…Apophenia is the very human capability of making meaning out of the chaotic data of the world. …”
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Creative, yet not unique? Paranormal belief, but not self-rated creative ideation behavior is associated with a higher propensity to perceive unique meanings in randomness by Christian Rominger, Andreas Fink, Corinna M. Perchtold-Stefan, Günter Schulter, Elisabeth M. Weiss, Ilona Papousek

“…Apophenia, patternicity, and the experience of meaningful coincidences describe the propensity to perceive meaning in random arrangements, which is known to be linked with paranormal beliefs. …”
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Topic models do not model topics: epistemological remarks and steps towards best practices by Anna Shadrova

“…These features are intrinsic and make the interpretation of its results prone to apophenia (the human tendency to perceive random sets of elements as meaningful patterns) and confirmation bias (the human tendency to perceptually prefer patterns that are in alignment with pre-existing biases). …”
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A Conspiracy of Data: QAnon, Social Media, and Information Visualization by Matthew N. Hannah

“…I argue that QAnon’s success—indeed, its very existence—relies on (at least) two principal factors: (1) QAnon relies, intentionally or no, on a slippage between data and information that obscures the interventions by Q and Q’s anons in leveraging information warfare, and (2) QAnon supports such a slippage with complex and interactive visualizations of bad information, thereby accelerating apophenia, the tendency to see linkages between random events and data points.…”
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Conspiracy as ARG: media and game essence of QAnon by Leyla O. Algavi, Gregory A. Budtsov, Georgy S. Kovalev, Nino Skvortsova

“…The QAnon quest structure was visualized, the gameplay based on experiencing the state of apophenia - a painful search for a connection between random phenomena or events - was described. …”
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Harvest Retention Survivorship of Endangered Whitebark Pine Trees by Michael P. Murray, Jenny Berg, David J. Huggard

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Applying and testing a novel method to estimate animal density from motion‐triggered cameras by Marcus Becker, David J. Huggard, Melanie Dickie, Camille Warbington, Jim Schieck, Emily Herdman, Robert Serrouya, Stan Boutin

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Data visualisation to support decision making and equitable healthcare service provision. by David Whyatt, Mei Ruu Kok, Matthew Yap, Matthew Tuson, Bryan Boruff, Berwin Turlach

“…Patterns recognised through such data visualisations may be the result of apophenia, i.e. where patterns are observed in what is essentially random information. …”
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ARTS AND MACHINE CIVILIZATION INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE / МЕЖДУНАРОДНАЯ НАУЧНАЯ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЯ «ИСКУССТВО И МАШИННАЯ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИЯ»... by DUKOV YEVGENY V. / ДУКОВ Е.В., EVALLYO VIOLETTA D. / ЭВАЛЛЬЕ В.Д.

“…The purpose of the conference was to comprehend the artistic practices in the era of machine civilization, get acquainted with current hypotheses, publish new facts and discuss modern terminologies (law of spontaneity, law of semantic uncertainty, algorithmic apophenia, post-opera, artificial life and new vitality). …”
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