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Knowledge › Western › Psychology Illusory correlation is the brain seeing a link between two events when none exists, because rare and striking events grab attention and stick in memory.
Updated 13 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Psychology The illusion of control explains why choosing your own lottery numbers or casting your own hexagram makes a random result feel more trustworthy.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Confirmation bias explains why we remember a fortune teller's hits and forget the misses, plus its mechanisms and self checks.
Updated 13 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Placing The Sun beside The Moon contrasts the light and dark poles of the Major Arcana. What Waite wrote, how the pair is read today, and its limits.
Updated 1 Oct 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy How does science view face reading? From 19th-century criminal anthropology to modern psychology, plus the misconceptions to avoid.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Apophenia explains why the brain sees faces in clouds, repeating numbers and patterns in random data, plus where the line to delusion lies.
Updated 13 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Psychology explains why we read random streaks as good or bad luck, and how the basketball hot hand debate pushed researchers to revise an old conclusion.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Philosophy of science Before a claim, split it into statement, reason, and evidence, then ask five questions. Common errors include confirmation bias and sunk cost.
Updated 13 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Psychology The Gauquelin Mars Effect was astrology's strongest apparent hit in statistical data, but later independent tests failed to replicate it.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Folk traditional practices Cold reading uses body language, double-edged statements and the Barnum effect to make vague claims feel like an accurate reading of your private life.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
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