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Clutching at Random Straws, Matt Parker | LMS Popular Lectures 2010
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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.
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Used to illustrate that humans pattern-match and find spurious patterns in enough data points.
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From the Hacker News discussion
Matt Parker (standupmath at youtube) does a presentation he calls "Clutching at Random Straws". It doesn't, as far as I can recall, specifically deal with Mondegreens, but about 38 minutes in he does a fun demonstration of how perception is a process of actively patternmatching for what we expect: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Matt Parker ("Stand up Maths" channel on YouTube) gave a very informative and entertaining lecture in 2010 titled "Clutching at Random Straws" [0], which, among other things, covered something similar. From the subtitle of the video: "Did aliens help prehistoric Britons find the ancient Woolworths civilisation?" The answer is "no". Given enough data points, you can find all sorts of patterns. 0: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗One more demonstration like this is in Matt Parker's "Clutching at Random Straws" lecture. [VIDEO]
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