{"id":210923,"date":"2025-04-09T03:05:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/the-psychology-of-randomness-why-our-brains-struggle-with-fallacies"},"modified":"2025-04-09T03:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:05:36","slug":"the-psychology-of-randomness-why-our-brains-struggle-with-fallacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/the-psychology-of-randomness-why-our-brains-struggle-with-fallacies","title":{"rendered":"The psychology of randomness: Why our brains struggle with fallacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vbix26y3CaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re surrounded by randomness \u2014 but we don\u2019t always see it clearly. Our minds crave patterns, even when chance is in control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re surrounded by randomness \u2014 but we don\u2019t always see it clearly. Our minds crave patterns, even when chance is in control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}