Clustering illusion

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What Wikipedia says

The clustering illusion is the tendency to erroneously consider the inevitable "streaks" or "clusters" arising in small samples from random distributions to be non-random.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Clustering illusion”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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