I like the word describing this tendency: apophenia : the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as o

I like the word describing this tendency: apophenia : the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas) I learned the word on account of http://apophenia.info http://apophenia.info which is open source software used for the book "Modeling With Data" by Ben Klemens. His "21st Century C" is more commonly encountered.