Turn Me On, Dead Man.

• Autores: Michael Shermer
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 292, Nº. 5, 2005, págs. 37-37
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article reports on anecdotal thinking versus scientific thinking. In September 1969, as the author of the article began ninth grade, a rumor circulated that the Beatles' Paul McCartney was dead, killed in a 1966 automobile accident and replaced by a look-alike. Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. Consider a few cases of false pattern recognition.