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Clutching at Random Straws, Matt Parker | LMS Popular Lectures 2010
London Mathematical Society
Matt Parker's LMS popular lecture on how seemingly incredible results can be meaningless random patterns. He ranges from ancient Woolworths civilisations to shoelaces and DNA.
Used to illustrate that humans pattern-match and find spurious patterns in enough data points.
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